So powerfully elemental they seemed to speak directly 这些元素是如此醒目 现代艺术家们 to modern artists when they first saw them. 第一眼见到它们 就读懂了其中的含义 The most self-consciously modern of them all, Picasso, 其...
I started in April 我从四月动工 and I stopped working in the middle of July. 到七月中旬结束 I worked about four, five hours a day. 每天大概制作四五个小时 In the end, it was about 400 hours, then I stopped counting. 最后算了下...
Perhaps the making of such things was itself a sacred calling. 也许制作这样的东西本身就是一件神圣使命 To see how much work was needed to make a lion-man, 为了了解制作一个狮人需要多少精力 archaeologist Wulf Hein 考古...
In Africa, the animals that dominate European cave paintings 欧洲壁画由动物主导 但在非洲 are accompanied by humans. 它们还有人类相伴 They appear as stylised, elongated figures. 他们以固定风格的 细长的形象出现 Somet...
But as the number of painted caves discovered grew, 但随着越来越多的壁画石洞被发现 it became clear that art and music came into the world together, 人们逐渐认识到绘画和音乐是同时来到世间的 for musical instruments we...
This was a doubling of the world, a life copy, 这是个复制的世界 生活的翻版 and executed with startling precision of drawing technique. 并以精密得令人惊讶的技术绘制而成 They even understood modelling, 他们甚至有立体的...
And then you come across this. 然后再来看看这些 And in an instant, vast millennia of time just collapse 就在一瞬间 数千年的时间过去了 and you're in the midst of fellow humans. 你站在了人类同胞中间 Their hands doing wha...
They are a design, 这是一种设计 and design announces the beginning of culture. 这一设计宣告了文明的开始 Another 40,000 years pass and in northern Spain 又过了四万年 在西班牙的北部 within a hill so uncannily conical it s...
When did it begin, 创世的第二个瞬间 that second moment of creation, 人类创造力的黎明 the dawning of human creativity? 是何时开始的呢 Where did it begin? 是从哪里开始的呢 It must have started in Africa 一定是从非洲开...
and attached a placard identifying him as director of idolatry. 还张贴了告示 称其为邪神崇拜的始作俑者 Or we might say, protector of what needs to be saved, 而在我们眼中 他是珍贵宝藏的守护者 cherished, passed on as th...