WHERE DID ART COME FROM? WHO MADE THE FIRST PIECE OF ART? From pictographs to petroglyphs, cave paintings to carved stone, ceramic and wood - objects have been gathered from around the world and we can only dream of HOW AND WHY each of those objects was formed. What do we know about ancestral art-making in Canada?
Please read: History of Indigenous Art in Canada
" Art is the act of triggering deep memories. Of what it means to be fully human" David Whyte
CONSIDER
1. Why did we make a mark on the wall of a cave?2. How did we decide we needed a vessel for holding things like drinking water?
3. How? Why? Did we move from decoration to metaphor?
4.What is an aesthetic response?
