27,000-year-old cave painting looks like a Modigliani
27,000-year-old cave painting looks like a Modigliani: “

Archaeologists have just discovered what appears to be the oldest portrait of a human face ever – a cave drawing from 27,000 years ago. Here’s the cool thing, though: The drawing is a set of sharp black lines of positively modernist abstraction. Writing in The Guardian, Jonathan Jones notes that the face looks oddly like a Modigliani, and goes on to ask an interesting question (…)
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[tags]history, human, evolution, art, portrait, representation, abstraction[/tags]
