The immense temporal separation makes it difficult to imagine why the paintings were made. The exhibition states blandly that the meaning of the Lascaux paintings "remains obscure" pushing aside the crucial mystery with the modest suggestion that the animal depictions filled "some kind of spiritual need." -Patrik Haggren
What could be a greater experience than that wonder discovered by Marcel Ravidat, Jacques, Simon Coencas and George Agniel led by their dog into that cave down a hole left by a storm knocked tree.
This miracle of "art's birth" (as the cave is often called) certainly "chronicles our state of mind" -Herzog
...and he continues to say "this is the modern human soul emerging vigorously, almost in an explosive event" although I must say I prefer Bataille's belief that the advancement of knowledge entails a simultaneous advance toward "non-knowledge"
I believe that we can know nothing yet still appreciate poetical responses to all phenomena.
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