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The Ancestor of Humans Was an "Artist" 500,000 Years Ago
brindafella writes Our ancient ancestor, Homo erectus, around 500,000 years ago, has been shown to make doodles or patterns. So, it seems that we Homo sapiens have come from a thoughtful lineage. The zig-zag markings cut into the covering of a fossil freshwater shell were from a deposit in the main bone layer of Trinil (Java, Indonesia), the place where Homo erectus was discovered by Eugène Dubois in 1891, says Dr Stephen Munro, a palaeoanthropologist with the Australian National University. The team's testing shows the erectus doodling was from 0.54 million years to a minimum of 0.43 million years ago. This pushes back the thoughtful making of marks by hundreds of thousands of years. The thoughtful gathering of shellfish and their nutrients also points to possible explanations for the evolving of bigger brains.
Yes, but talking about art is a language of pseudo intelligence for people who don't know anything to make themselves sound smart based on their emotional reaction to things. This is proven by the fact that they use lengthy words to describe things that can actually be communicated in very simple terms. It's also a language based on the popularity of the person being discussed, if you're good and you copy someone, you have referenced them, you have created allusion, you've paid homage to the person before you, if you're bad you're deemed to have created a cliché. All in all it's all bullshit and stuff either looks good or it doesn't. Urinals in a fucking art gallery. Science is as objective as can be, art is as subjective as can be. I sniff my own farts because that's what great artists and art critics do.
Science (with a capital 'S') is a philosophy
Science (with a small 's') is a process.
Hypothesis: The fact that Science works leads people to believe it is not a philosophy.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.