Response to "More Human Than Human", How Art Made the World, P.B.S.

This ambitious documentary looks at many links between depictions of the human figure over time, and is full of creative insight.  I was interested in the ancient Greek scripts that spoke of battles with Egypt, these first-hand artifacts preserve history well and shows the unique technologically advanced ability of the Greek people to record events with written language. 
The theory presented by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran applied some art and color theory with ecology to relate the chick's reaction to a desirable color to a human understanding of desirable features, as made artifact in the Venus of Willendorf. While it is plausible that such a link is there, it would take further cognitive research of of pre-historic humans versus other mammals throughout history to develop this theory. I do
The Egyptian depictions of the similarly featured, almost clone-like rows of human figures, with frontal symmetry, that are found in such places as the Great Temple of Cairo, are so similar to the images of society in our visual culture.  While more simplistic, the way human life is illustrated in hieroglyphics shows the framework for renaissance art, which came centuries later, and still is: it depicted human life processes and social hierarchies. Also, the fact that they were commissioned by royalty is a theme found everywhere in art history. 

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