2024-11-24 ┃ edited ┃ RE: futurebird
But it still is very strange since when modern children start drawing one of the first things they will draw are faces.
Faces dominate our minds, the brain seems to process faces in special ways that other things are not.
I wish I could go back and just ask them... why not draw some portraits so we could see the emotions and faces of all of you people of the past?
This makes me think they saw the world in radically different way from how we see it now.
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@futurebird Now that you mention it, taboo does seems unlikely. If there were such a taboo, you know *someone* would be violating it. The question would not by "why no faces?" but rather "Why […]
@futurebird Fascinating questions! Today's children don't meet animals first ...
As you speak of taboo: Many indigenous tribes believed that if you copy a face, the photographer/artist gets […]
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We ignore or see the natural world as a threat.
@futurebird 🤔 interesting. Given our neuro-bio setup, it seems unlikely, doesn't it? Maybe johnny wanted to draw faces on the cave wall, but momma washed it off and sent him back to the sandbox […]
@futurebird maybe they did make those drawings on more ephemeral media that did not survive, or maybe there was a prohibition against capturing the human form.
@futurebird To me, the few paintings preserved in caves don’t look like a person’s first attempt at drawing.
It hints at the possibility there was great deal more artwork around at the time.
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This thread reminds me of a scene in the book “Time and Again” by Jack Finney. In it, a character from modern times travels back to 1880s New York. He attempts to impress some […]
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You don't have to try to figure it out.
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@futurebird Just expeculating, may be its a colective thing. They didn't paint an specific individual. They painted animals, in general, humans in general.
Children draw faces because we teach […]
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@futurebird This thread reminds me of a TED talk about early human writing.
ted.com/talks/genevieve_von_pe…
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