The oldest known abstract drawing has been found in South Africa's Blombos Cave -- on the face of a flake of siliceous rock retrieved from archaeological strata dated to 73,000 years before the ...

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Discover the oldest abstract drawing, a 73,000-year-old ochre design found in Blombos Cave that reflects ancient human cognition. It's a flake split from a larger piece of silcrete — a rock made from ...

As deliberate as a thought, or as primal as a cry, drawing can be many things. It can describe something seen or felt, and it can be a thing in itself, without reference to the visible world. There ...

Artists: Marina Kassianidou, linn meyers, Jason Stopa and Tim Whiten In connection with our exhibition Tim Whiten: Tools of Conveyance, join us for a hybrid panel event, Abstract drawing, between ...

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What is a symbol? This is a tough question to answer when tasked with analyzing the earliest graphic productions. What we might today interpret as figurative representations might just be an ancient ...