Ancient Art and Modern

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Mural in Del Ray. 5 Dec 2020.

On Saturday while walking the dog I captured a photo of a recent mural in our neighborhood. The cave art-inspired mural is by an artist who painted another mural around the corner for a local sushi restaurant. This seemed timely after reading about the enormous murals painted by prehistoric artists in the Colombian Amazon 12,000 years ago (see the articles in Smithsonian and The Guardian). It's amazing that ancient art of the type found in the Amazon can still be discovered.