追溯绘画的历史,当原始人用手中燃尽的松木火把在头顶岩石的壁面上画下一道粗粗的痕迹时,洞穴壁画就诞生了。黑色的木炭灰创造了人类绘画最初的线条。法国的拉斯科和西班牙的阿尔塔米拉洞穴壁画,成为最著名的两处欧洲洞穴壁画。这些壁画的作者我们无从查考,但理论家们根据这些壁画的内容、绘制位置等提出了关于美术的各种解释,如,根据壁画描绘的动物内容,有人提出了游戏说和自娱说;根据壁画绘制在洞穴的深层,又有人提出了巫术说,认为美术是巫术的模仿。 Tracing back to the history of painting, cave murals were born as the primitives painted a thick trail of burnt-out pine torches on the rock walls above them. Black charcoal ash created the first lines of human painting. France’s Lasko and Spain’s Altamira cave paintings, becoming the most famous two European cave paintings. We can not examine the authors of these murals, but the theorists have come up with various explanations of art based on the contents of the frescoes, their location, etc. For example, according to the animal content portrayed by murals, Mural drawn in the depths of the cave, and another proposed witchcraft that art is the imitation of witchcraft.