Art Lecture #2

Today's art lecture we talked about some old caves near i think it was france? I thought it was cool cuz they had a chamber called the chamber of bulls where it is believed for large groups from a village may have come and drawn there as a ceremony of sorts. Also we learned that the way the pictures were drawn were with the indents in the walls and stuff. It's pretty cool to know that art has been around since like prehistoric times. It's even cooler to know that it was a seventeen year old and his friends that initially discovered the cave. I was laughing to here that his friends let the boy down with rope and when they pulled him up he was pale cuz of what he found and the carbon dioxide deposits there. The fact that it was a teenager who discovered the cave inspired me because it shows that anything can happen to anyone. It is a dream of mine to leave my permanent mark on history one day and this kid did it by luck. Who knows, maybe i'll make the next big discovery >:)
We also learned that the cave branched off into smaller chambers and that there was a picture that was declared to be a "broken man." It was said that these tribes didn't paint anything but animals and stuff but this was one of the first paintings of an actual person. Also, we learned that this cave became one of the greatest tourist attractions but was shut down do to the cave falling apart. However, on the bright side there's a REPLICA!!! too bad replica's are never actually the same. It's like saying we did need David cuz we got a replica of him!... NO! it doesn't work that way. Everyone knows that I'm where the party's at. =P
Anyway, we also watched some videos of inception and the matrix! i thought that was kinda fun but the real reason we watched that is because it posed the question, "What is reality?" In my opinion, there are many realities, or subrealities if you will, and one BIG REALITY! we live in a sub reality. To me, each life is a sub reality and we have alternate realities which are alternate ways of viewing the world. Each person sees the world one way and another person sees it another way. The one big reality, to me, is inconceivable. It's too much for our minds to comprehend. That's why nobody has found an answer to things like religion. We each think our religion is correct but there's no definite proof. Just a book which was probably written by some other ordinary artist or artists. The concept of God and heaven and afterlife are all beyond our comprehension. Reality is a concept to big for our minds to fully grasp. But as far as i can tell, reality is everything. Dreams are reality because our minds produce them. It may not be happening but that fact that you dream is there and that's real. Feelings are real. An idea is real. Hence, reality includes all things solid, fiction, or non fiction.