EMERGENCE OF NEW STYLES IN ART HISTORY

Due to a lack of archaeological evidence, we know very little about the beginnings and development of one of humanity's defining traits: the capacity to create works of visual art. Color, pattern, and accurate representation of the human form are all essential elements of art. Evidence of completely contemporary cognition and symbolizing activity, as well as anatomy, may be seen in the 2D and 3D art forms made by Upper Palaeolithic Europe at least 30,000 years ago, which are conceptually identical to those developed in recent centuries. Therefore, art has a considerably longer history and may be traced back to Africa well before the global spread of humans. It's possible that 3D art evolved from the observation that humans see their similarity in inanimate things and then modifying those items to emphasize that likeness, much as certain 2D art has definitely been affected by the suggestive aspects of an uneven surface. Using one's imagination, sometimes known as "the mind's eye," to create pictures would have given early humans a significant evolutionary edge in the realms of toolmaking and hunting. An examination of primitive tool use reveals a theory that might have been used for early sculpture: the creation of three-dimensional things (such as sculptures and reliefs) requires the artist to mentally break them down into a sequence of surfaces. Having the mental capacity to create art apart from the body undoubtedly had its genesis in Africa, but the actual practice of doing so may have started at various points in genetically as well as culturally separate communities both within Africa as well as throughout global dispersal, explaining the wide range of styles seen in art from different parts of the world, from the ancient to the contemporary. There must have been very talented people at every epoch in the development of art.