The Power of Art

I think the cave artists were trying to show there struggles, challenges, findings, there stories of there daily lives and activities and the animals around them. I think with different the cave artists were trying to communicate and leave there story behind, for others to see or there children to understand what they had to go through. I think the cave artists could even draw out things like religion and communicate it through there paintings.

I think that there were so many animals on the paintings to show the how different animals mean different things. There were allot of different animals painted such as bison, ox, cattle, bears, deers, wolves, horses, stags, ibexes, and aurochs. I think certain animals represented something different such as horses were in allot of the paintings which could have meant that they were needed and used daily, they were good for the people and very helpful and friendly. I think pictures of deers, cattle, and bison could have represented that those were the animals that were hunted and eaten to survive. Other animal pictures such as bears,  and wolves could have represented that they were dangerous, an enemy to people and that many people feared them. I think that animals were there main source of survival whether it was for warmth from there fur, hunting them to be able to eat, or even using an animal as shelter so drawing the animals showed how important they were to there daily living.

I think the paintings can tell us other things such as the season in which it is at the time. I read that the analysis showed that the horses correspond to early spring, the arurochs to summer and the stags to autumn. Drawing animals like these can help others who see the paintings recognize what season it is and the biological cycle indicates for each species the beginnings of mating rituals which bring life and help them survive. I think the paintings can also help us to better understand what kind of tools they use to hunt or use to build there homes. I think that it will also show where they lived which most of them lived in caves and I think it can even show there different types of diet such as the animals that are being hunted at the time, or even the other foods that they are eating at the time.

I think the early humans had difficulties when trying to paint there pictures because of the darkness in there caves, they had gas lamps but there lights are nothing like the lights we have now so at times it could be very dark for them and very hard to see while painting. They also probably had trouble when it came to painting on some parts of the cave because some parts might have been very small and some parts might have been to high or a tight squeeze when getting in to the cave.

I think three possible functions of this art could be to communicate with others things such as dangerous animals or harmful plants, or animals that you are suppose to hunt. I think it is a way to educate others if they cant tell them things they need to know, and they can use the paintings to tell stories about there lives to pass on stories to there children and there children's children. I think it could have also been a way for them to entertain themselves, give them something to do and have fun while doing it.

Some commonalities in the art of early humans and modern humans is the story behind some artists paintings. Early humans used paintings in caves to tell stories, show there struggles, capture things that they saw and wanted to show others. I think modern artists do the same thing at times they capture and draw things that they want others to enjoy and see and even draw things as way to understand different ways of life. Art of early and modern humans is a way for people to communicate with others.

My favorite form of art is Photography

3. “ Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. – Matt Hardy

You often don’t or can’t see beauty in the world until someone shows it to you. Take a look around you just now – even without moving from the computer. Can you see something in a new way, a different way of presenting something common? Just take a look again…

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"Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film".

Photography serves many purposes for many people. It can capture any moment in time that is special to someone, when they see something they have never seen before, when they want to show other people things that they might never be able to see, to educate people on other cultures, to see different point of views of things through the way the picture is taken or even the color of the picture.

I think the culture surrounding photography is the different types of cameras there are the different types of lens, the types of films and even the different types of colors used like color and or black and white.

The art form of photography benefits society because it can capture a moment in history and that picture can be saved for many generations to see and learn about. Seeing pictures of certain historical events can be easier to understand then written documentation. Photography makes the world well known to others who might not be able to see it for themselves. I think that seeing pictures of historical people like George Washington makes us able to understand who he was and what he looked like instead of having to try and imagine it for our selves.

I think photography can have detrimental affects in ways such as if the photographer doesn't take an accurate photo of something and or takes a photo and edits it so its not how it was at first and all we see is what the photographer wanted us to see. I also think that photographs can show a bad image of people when taken by the wrong person.