Are cave paintings really little more than the testosterone-fuelled scribblings of young men?

nature news ^ | 31 may | some guy

[Tijeras_Slim]

Oggette got back.

[Fintan]

 

I had no idea...

[VOA]

bump

[Salamander]

Here's the bad news, Joe.

"Art" is something in your head that you -must- let out *somehow* or it will drive you batty.

Buy her lots of art supplies....or she'll explode.....:D

[Salamander]

Goddess on the mountain top
Burning like a silver flame
The summit of beauty and love
And Venus was her name

She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it
I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire

Her weapons were her crystal eyes
Making every man a man
Black as the dark night she was
Got what no-one else had
Wa!

She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it
I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire

Goddess on the mountain top
Burning like a silver flame
The summit of beauty and love
And Venus was her name

She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it
I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire

---

Sorta puts the fire out, don't she?.....:D

[Salamander]

Celtic carneys?

[yeah, the Irish are pretty blunt about things]

Sincerely, Yoni McAnderson

[Smokin' Joe]

Buy her lots of art supplies....or she'll explode.....:D

LOL! Oh, I do!

[Salamander]

You're a good man, Smokin' Joe....:)

Hubby knows the score, too.

He enclosed the front porch into an art-room only space with cabinets and shelves for all the airbrushes, paint, boards, easels...etc...etc...etc....;D

Probably 75% of my software is graphics related.
It's a *compulsion*, I tell ya!

[and it must work because I haven't flipped out in *years*]......LOL!

[shibumi]

Dear Yoni,

Thanks for shedding a wHole new light on the subject.

Yours truly,

Singlen Tendre

[S0122017]

Who writes this junk? So now "they" are sure that the species' ancient "testosterone-fuelled young men" scribble aimlessly, but modern art is meaningful? I am ashamed that this garbage passes for science. Testosterone is here for a good reason, as inconvenient as that fact may be to the know-it-all dweebs who write this stuff in their lofty cubicles. Now I must go out and kill something before I get upset.

If everyone would read the article carfefull instead of scanning the article or reading the title, you would find that the article is skeptic to the notion of caveart made by adolescents.

[ThanhPhero]

Considering that old men were probably very rare and what we call middle-aged men almost as rare, then the likelihood is that the paintings were by young men and they probably experienced the normal range of hormonal influences.

[S0122017]

Yes but don't such men also grow up quicker?
Perhaps their 30 year old where mentally like old men, and their 20 year old in the prime of their life.

[PoorMuttly]

"the article is skeptic to the notion of caveart made by adolescents."

Great!

I had suspected this, and it is good to hear. So, my comment stands, and you have directed it to thems what to it should go.

How come Lazmataz can post without reading the article better than moi? More mysteries of the universe for my little brain to ponder.

I need a nap now.

[SunkenCiv]

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