The History of Image

This Lecture took us through a 20,000 year non-linear history of image, starting with the Lascaux Cave markings to the modern day. The lecture outlined how each development of image is all linked and there is almost like a cycle of image with styles resurfacing and fading away over the years. for example starting with the cave markings in Lascaux which were symbols, animals and abstract signs, to the detailed paintings of Da Vinci, then to abstract expressionism with artists like Pollock and Rothko. The lecture also pointed out how certain images are took and manipulated and reinvented as original pieces, with examples such as Marcel Duchamp with the mustached Mona Lisa and Banksy's stencil of her holding the bazooka. These become their own pieces because the small manipulations give it a whole new meaning, Banksy turning the Mona Lisa into a comical figure while representing how people have became numb to war stories.