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Evolving Trends in Man’s Self-Expression

17th March 2016

Etchings, drawings and paintings by cave dwellers on cave walls depict not only the lifestyles of hunter-gatherers but man’s existential need of ornamentation and self-expression. Body paintings, mutilations, tattoos and other forms of body ornamentation emphasize this need in the most graphic manner. During the Rennaissance, ornamentalism had achieved a high state of civilization known as … Continue reading Evolving Trends in Man’s Self-Expression