This is why i like art historians: they put things in perspective. They show you the larger picture so to say. Now i understand a little bit more of what i´m doing with my art…
The earliest naturalists may actually have been artists working in Southern Europe about 30,000 years ago. If natural history involves keen and extended observation and careful description, then prehistoric cave painters, such as the people who made the images in the caves of Lascaux and Chauvet in France, could conceivably be considered the earliest natural historians. Alan Shabel, a senior researcher and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, has described the images at Chauvet as “the work of early natural historians” and says “they’re natural historians for sure, they are good ones, and they are great artists.”
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