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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Oct 11, 2007 5:21 PM More proof positive that the "Birth of Art" happened in primitive modernist style :D : WORLD'S OLDEST WALL PAINTING UNEARTHED By Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Reuters Posted: 2007-10-11 16:53:58 DAMASCUS (Oct. 11) - French archaeologists have discovered an 11,000-year-old wall painting underground in northern Syria which they believe is the oldest in the world. The 2 square-meter painting, in red, black and white, was found at the Neolithic settlement of Djade al-Mughara on the Euphrates, northeast of the city of Aleppo, team leader Eric Coqueugniot told Reuters. "It looks like a modernist painting. Some of those who saw it have likened it to work by (Paul) Klee. Through carbon dating we established it is from around 9,000 B.C.," Coqueugniot said. Mustafa Ali, a leading Syrian artist, said similar geometric design to that in the Djade al-Mughara painting found its way into art throughout the Levant and Persia, and can even be seen in carpets and kilims (rugs). "We must not lose sight that the painting is archaeological, but in a way it's also modern," he said. Swiss-German artist Paul Klee had links with the Bauhaus school and was important in the German modernist movement. Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.

More proof positive that the "Birth of Art" happened in primitive modernist style :D :

WORLD'S OLDEST WALL PAINTING UNEARTHED

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis,
Reuters
Posted: 2007-10-11 16:53:58
DAMASCUS (Oct. 11) - French archaeologists have discovered an 11,000-year-old wall painting underground in northern Syria which they believe is the oldest in the world.

The 2 square-meter painting, in red, black and white, was found at the Neolithic settlement of Djade al-Mughara on the Euphrates, northeast of the city of Aleppo, team leader Eric Coqueugniot told Reuters.

"It looks like a modernist painting. Some of those who saw it have likened it to work by (Paul) Klee. Through carbon dating we established it is from around 9,000 B.C.," Coqueugniot said.

Mustafa Ali, a leading Syrian artist, said similar geometric design to that in the Djade al-Mughara painting found its way into art throughout the Levant and Persia, and can even be seen in carpets and kilims (rugs).

"We must not lose sight that the painting is archaeological, but in a way it's also modern," he said.

Swiss-German artist Paul Klee had links with the Bauhaus school and was important in the German modernist movement.

Post #337955 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Oct 11, 2007 5:21 PM