The Caveman
I was reading an exchange between two cunters in which they revealed their unconscious dogma. That we moderns are the flower of humankind after a million years of Evolution. Our ‘brains are bigger’ one post ended.
Brought to my mind The Caveman. Yes there he is Homo Erectus in his animal skins and club in hand. The club of course for knocking ladies on the head with and ‘carrying them off’. His other weapon he has made for himself is a sharp flint knife to mark each conquest on his bedstead. To show his mates I suppose. How he communicates with these mates I don’t know-because he seems not to have the gift of language. He just grunts and and shakes his hand and points it seems from tv, movies.
The Caveman is not very refined is he. He lacks culture is the assumption. He’s a bit thick. We are far more developed than him.
Wayne and Waynetta come to mind. Slouched on the sofa with their takeaway watching the huge LED TV set on the wall. Mmm…what is on the wall in the Cave? Well we have evidence -indeed the only evidence we have of these people who lived so long ago, namely; the paintings on the cave wall.
There isn’t one of a male human figure under huge swans’ wings. But there are beautiful painting of horses and deer and bulls. (I am thinking of the Lascaux caves in southwestern France). And animated as well. You can see The Artist has gone to great lengths to capture the disposal of the legs in a deer cavorting. Or the shape of the back in a horse bucking.
Yes a True Artist-with his love of the long flowing sinuous line. This is somebody who has really studied the horse. The quality of the work is as good as George Stubbs’s paintings of horses in the 19thCentury.
Picasso was good at this before he went nuts. His early drawings of animals are quite exceptional. That was before he started painting them in straight lines a la Cubism.
Anyway my point here you could say rather than there being a development in Art since the Stone Age there has been a decline. Or The Stone Age should be seen as the Avant guarde.
Back to Wayne and Wayneyetta. What do we say on here? ‘Darwin in reverse’. But it is such a simplistic way of seeing things. It isn’t Darwin in reverse or Darwin fast-forwarded. Its just humans. Living at different times.
I haven’t mentioned Fred Flintstone. YABBA DABBA don’t. Yes It was Wilma for me.
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Caveman