This is why art is closely related to philosophy. One of the earliest texts to explore the connection between vision and philosophy is Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave." Found in Book VII of “The ...

The earliest Greek cave art depicting extinct animals was discovered on Crete and is believed to be at least 11,000 years old ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...

In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, prisoners stare at shadows on the wall and mistake them for truth. When one escapes and sees ...

The paper is published in the journal Arts. Dr. Assaf explains, "Cave art created by early humans is a fascinating phenomenon that intrigues many researchers. To date, around 400 caves containing ...

For HKIFF's executive director Albert Lee, Kuosmanen is a fresh voice from a nation long defined by the prolific output of offbeat auteur Aki Kaurismäki.

The existence of ancient cave paintings in Brazil have been revealed for the first time - two years after they were ...

At one Alabama landmark, it’s part of the unique drawing power of the place ... s first claim to fame is that it’s located in a cave, and some rainy days had preceded my visit.

“You couldn’t get more female than this,” says Nicholas Conard, the Ohio-born archaeologist whose University of Tübingen team found the sculpture at the bottom of a vaulted cave in ...

Art is also an incredibly effective tool for learning — something well known to our ancient ancestors, who used cave art to educate people over posterity. When you look at art, the concepts or ...