From yellow brick road to dark as night: How color has become an important storytelling tool
Jan24
Thirty-four thousand years ago in Southern France an artist took pigment to cave wall and created the first painting. He or she – this Michelangelo of the cavemen – drew herds of bison, rhinos locked in a combat of horns, and gazelles running and leaping. The artist was using the animals to tell the first recorded visual-story. While the images are undeniably beautiful and expressive, the underlying story is almost impossible to understand today. We can only guess at the possible meanings of the narrative or history that this first artist might have been trying to convey. Part of the problem is…
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