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Art and Language: The co-evolution of symbols and the human brain
I’ve mentioned it a few times before throughout my blog: art was not the only thing that evolved over time. The artistic and symbolic nature of human beings speaks significantly on the evolution of human behavior and the human brain. Rather than being two separate instances, art and the brain may have in fact co-evolved;…
Early Forms of Symbolism: How human art can be much more than pretty pictures or sculptures
What makes human beings especially unqiue is our ability to communicate symbolically. Before language, all we had to communicate ideas with was art; in the forms of paintings, figurines, engravings, and more. As we dive into the idea of symbolic communication, we can come to understand that art is so much more than pretty pictures…
Just what the heck is ‘art’ anyways?
Poetry, cave drawings, figurines, even engravings on tools! The list of art can go on and on, as long as Homo sapeins have walked this earth. In fact, some archaeologists and anthropologists consider the sheer notion of art to be not only a prehistoric tradition, but a pre-human one at that! Excavations in Indonesia uncovered…
From Aesthetics to Meaning 