So long have historians traced the beginnings of man, so long have they found the traces of art alongside him. The story of art can also be seen as being that of man, both go hand in hand, where we find art, we also find man. Art alongside language seem to be the original mysteries that we have yet to pierce, they seem to be the impulses of a mystical nature which has bestowed on us humans a higher level of self, giving us a special place in the realm of beings, somewhere between the eternal and the temporary, the absolute and the null, the lofty and the earthly. A special medium which civilization has forever struggled to understand and maintain, we swing from extreme to another like a pendulum that cannot escape its inherent condition.
In this article, I suggest that we retrace the story of Art so as to understand that nobler part of man, that which he can call his own and by which nature bes…
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