The language of plastic arts has been the basic elements of the line, shape, form, space, texture, colour.
The organisation of these into shapes and meanings could be seen in cave-drawings and on stones in early societies.
Artisans and hunters, medicine men and teachers, used these marks as magic symbols to cure or to instruct, to inspire or to record for pleasure or for documentation.
These marks were abstract in nature. Their purposes were many: decorative, expressive, symbolic, magical, functional.
European artists took to organising the art elements to represent the real.
Roman sculptures and the painters and sculptors of the Renaissance took this organisation to high representation - REALISM.
Contemporary artist pushed the limits and presented the SUPER-REALISTIC genre.
We have come full circle.
The organisation of the art elements as themselves revealing their nature through the interpretation of the artist-designer-magician is the subject of this BBC documentary.
I found it engaging.
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