Why Art

Art is the expression by humans to each other. While it may or may not communicate data essential to survival it never the less expresses that which has meaning between the artist and the recipient of that meaning. In human history the great flourish of art has only been within about the past 30,000 years. The Neanderthal had art, but much less than modern man. No doubt it had the approximately the same meaning in a rudimentary form to the higher meaning of modern man. It may be that other social animals have the capacity, but in a different form. For example is all the "communication" we hear amongst porpoises strictly data or could it at times be music. A mother singing lullabies to her children. It is certain that art is found in animals with higher capacity brains with a social behavior pattern and no where else. Some of our art can only be achieved by humans because of the technical capacities or physical features we humans have only. Because it exists then there is a need for it to exist even though we might not understand why it exists. This is my faith. Another statement of faith is that it had to have survival value for it to develop in the first place particularly when humans were living and surviving in a more technologically challenged environment. So art is not essentially tied to technology except where an art form is tied to the a particular technological development. Technology therefore has only been a refinement of that essence what has always been from that first expression of art