http://www.rogersandall.com/beauty-art-and-darwin/ Ideas and Arguments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:40:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.rogersandall.com/beauty-art-and-darwin/comment-page-1/#comment-761 George Larkins Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:14:03 +0000 http://www.rogersandall.com/?p=628#comment-761 Werner Herzog 3D Film "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" takes you into the Chauvet Caves. These drawings were an early form of proto-cinema. Cast on convaluted surfaces and illuminated by flickering luminesence of torch light, they became art in motion for the primitive viewers.( see the multi hornes and 8 legs on the bison?) Imagine me a modern man sitting in a theatre (cave) viewing 3D moving images by illuminata of a cave (Chauvet) of moving images by illuminata. It creates a primordal feedback loop. Werner Herzog 3D Film “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” takes you into the Chauvet Caves. These drawings were an early form of proto-cinema. Cast on convaluted surfaces and illuminated by flickering luminesence of torch light, they became art in motion for the primitive viewers.( see the multi hornes and 8 legs on the bison?) Imagine me a modern man sitting in a theatre (cave) viewing 3D moving images by illuminata of a cave (Chauvet) of moving images by illuminata. It creates a primordal feedback loop.

]]> http://www.rogersandall.com/beauty-art-and-darwin/comment-page-1/#comment-394 george cohen Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:13:28 +0000 http://www.rogersandall.com/?p=628#comment-394 I have just discovered your site, have read a few articles, and enjoy them very much. You are indeed a very good writer. I cannot be as sophisticated as all of the above, but: what if, to the Lascaux painters it was all just..utilitarian, as it were, and the "beauty" that we see in it a product of our 'modern', accepted sensibilities. Samule Eliot Morison, a distinguished naval historian, wrote about Jacques Cartier's expedition to Canada....sailing up the St. Lawrence in the Fall, seeing what must have been a spectacular display of virgin forest Fall foliage.....not a mention of it in the logs, account, etc. This doesn't prove anything, but it leaves you wondering.... I have just discovered your site, have read a few articles, and enjoy them very much.
You are indeed a very good writer.
I cannot be as sophisticated as all of the above, but:
what if, to the Lascaux painters it was all just..utilitarian, as it were, and the “beauty” that we see in it a product of our ‘modern’, accepted sensibilities.
Samule Eliot Morison, a distinguished naval historian, wrote about Jacques Cartier’s expedition to Canada….sailing up the St. Lawrence in the Fall, seeing what must have been a spectacular display of virgin forest Fall foliage…..not a mention of it in the logs, account, etc.
This doesn’t prove anything, but it leaves you wondering….

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