Historical Iconography

Humans have been drawing on walls and surfaces for thousands of years! We have all agreed on certain pictures that mean the same thing to everyone, like a red heart for love or a dove for peace. When you draw, you are joining a huge, ancient team of artists who have been sharing their thoughts since the cavemen. You are using a visual language that has been refined over a very, very long time. This helps your inner world connect to the outer world of everyone who lived before you.

You are joining a team of artists who have been sharing thoughts since the cavemen. The hand that painted the cave wall in Lascaux 17,000 years ago was doing the same thing you do with a crayon: saying I was here. I saw this. I felt this. Remember me. The medium changes. The message never does.

Iconography: study of identification, description, and interpretation of image content. Allows artists to tap into collective archetypes (Jung), using established visual metaphors to communicate complex truths transcending individual experience. The dove meant peace before any country had a flag. The symbols are older than the civilizations that claimed them.

SOUND: The echoing silence of a large art museum: thousands of voices frozen in frames.

SMELL: The dusty, sweet smell of an old history book: time you can inhale.

TASTE: A recipe passed down for generations: art you can eat.

TOUCH: Touching a stone wall and imagining someone painting it 30,000 years ago.

SIGHT: Recognizing a symbol from a movie in a very old painting: the thread never broke.

BODY: The ghost of other artists as you use the same tools they did: your hand in their hand across centuries.

Music: While My Guitar Gently Weeps by The Beatles

Part of Painting & Drawing — ART — Education Revelation