{"id":416,"date":"2016-01-21T16:53:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/?p=416"},"modified":"2016-01-23T15:54:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T15:54:29","slug":"why-is-art-important-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/why-is-art-important-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is ART important, anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been making art since ……… always.<\/p>\n

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Cupule detail at Auditorium Cave at Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh, India. Dates from 290,000 – 700,000 BCE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Early humans, homo-erectus, were creating cupules (a type of rock carving) hundreds of thousands of years ago.<\/p>\n

15,000 to 40,0000 years ago, humans were creating expressive paintings of animals, hand prints and markings\u00a0 on cave walls in what is now France and Spain.<\/p>\n

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Bison in the Cave of Altamira, Spain.
Paintings date from approximately 20,000 years ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Art is a very big subject.\u00a0 It’s up there with the likes of philosophy, science and history (quite recent subjects compared to art).<\/p>\n

If you’ve ever drawn so much as a stick figure, jotted a poem, danced a few steps or hummed a tune you’re part of the story.<\/p>\n

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It has always been in our nature to make art and here’s why:<\/p>\n