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Originally Posted by Zeke
This is silly.
AFA the cave dwellings go, the first scratch began the revolution. Everything after that is theft, according to your thesis.
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The "problem" with this thesis is the unspoken premise the either the whole of humanity passed through the caves to see the art only then to steal the idea for some unstated purpose (not likely); or that the few "original artists" went all around the world seeding their art into other regions for unknown reasons (artistic hegemony?); or (more likely) art developed at various loci independently withing the melieu of those small societies over quite some time.
Moreover, the realistic impressionism of Lascaux isn't an example of the musings of a first day artist. Those are the result of long learned techniques. So, actually, those renderings are the highlights of an artistic path derived from the "stealing" of earlier artistic developments.