The Role Of Art

Art can be created for many different reasons, maybe for recreational purpose, or for profit in the present day. Generally art is created in response to the culture around us and is used as a form of experimentaion in pleasing people's minds and making us feel like we are doing something good in the world through creation and expressing our feelings, or even to teach others in our world.


The earliest recordings of art work are documented at over 30,000 years old, these are the cave drawings made by the earliest human life on the planet which depict what life was like as a caveman. The drawings show the humans hunting for food and even attempts at drawing each other, they look similar to stickmen, this work could have been used for symbolic reasons, or simply for education and terrortorial reasons.


Its clear now that back then art was used as simply to in a pragmatic sense (recording history) or in a more metaphysical sense (symbolic). The caves in France where the earliest drawings in human history were found proves this concept.

Sculptures of what look like women where also found in the same caves in France one of which was famously named, The Venus of Willendorf. This shows that in this stone age period that art was also used to depict the feelings of the humans, they must have had something to desire about the women if they was making sculptures depicting them, or they might not have desired them like we portray women in our present times. 


The Venus of Willendorf was a fat women which suggests that the men were worshiping them as the mothers of the children, and basically using the women for reasons other than sexual desire. Along with these kind of sculptures was found a lion man (literally the head of lion on a man's body) possibly show that humans feared something, or just wanted to express their imaginations through drawing.


You can actually see some elements of realism and exaggeration in the sculptures, this was probably down to the imagination of the early cavemen trying to convey what they saw (or thought was important) about the women in this time period.