Art’s birthday, or, when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water

One Million Years B.C. (1967) – Don Chaffey [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]

Tomorrow is art’s birthday.

Filliou first proposed “Art’s Birthday” in 1963. He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on January 17th to be precise, Art was born. Filliou says it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water.

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Robert Filliou

For the origins of art see Georges Bataille‘s Prehistoric Painting: Lascaux or the Birth of Art, One Million Years BC, cave painting and primitive art.

3 thoughts on “Art’s birthday, or, when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water”

  1. lichanos

    I was just watching the trailer to One Million Years B.C. – it was on the DVD with the original Day the Earth Stood Still. I am particularly fond of the scene using an iguana as a dinosaur monster.

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