Who were the first artists?

Answer 1

The earliest recorded artists were probably the cave men.

Answer 2

Hey Skycat,

This question was asked about an hour ago. Prehistoric art in the caves of France was the answer.

It seems the first people would be the first artists - they probably took blood from an animal they were eating, and painted their face. Or maybe they drew maps on the ground with different colored rocks and sticks.

Art is as old as humanity in my view, and the first artist was the first human - what ever your belief. If you believe in Eve, she was a con Artist. If not, then think about how natural a thought it is to scrape something, or put two things together for no reason at all.

Answer 3

Here is a quote from my Art History book:
"The first sculptures and paintings antedate the invention of writing by tens of thousands of years. No one knows why the first 'artists' began to paint and carve images of animals and humans or what role those images played in the lives of Paleolithic hunters. All that is certain is that the statuettes, reliefs, and mural paintings were not created as 'art' in the modern sense of the word. But the Paleolithic artists were the first to represent the world around them in stone and paint, initiating and intellectual revolution of enormous consequences. They and their Neolithic successors also invented many of the techniques and established many of the conventions that would characterize sculpture and painting for millennia." What is considered to be actual art seems to have come from Mesopotamia. That is where "the Sumerians built the first monumental temples and filled their religious precincts and tombs with statues, reliefs, and objects of gold, lapis lazuli, and other costly materials. Their successors--the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, and others--continued the tradition of monumental art and architecture, erecting ruler portraits, stelae recording victories and law codes, and great palaces decorated with painted narrative reliefs."

Answer 4

Cavemen, look at the cave paintings in Lascaux France.

Answer 5

Not exactly sure but, I think he's the cave man on the Geico car insurance commercials

Answer 6

the shamans, tribal medicine men/women, priests/priestess' of the pre-historic way earliest hominids. art was religious/spiritual...hm-m-m-m-m, still is actually.

or we could go way-y-y-y-back "long long ago, in a galaxy far far away"...but that would be an exercise in futility

Answer 7

cave dwellers drawing on the cave walls.

Answer 8

cavemen