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The art.
The arts might have origins in early human evolutionary prehistory. According to a recent suggestion, several forms of audio and visual arts (prehistoric music such as rhythmic singing anddrumming on external objects, dancing, and body and face painting) were developed very early in hominid evolution by the forces of natural selection in order to reach an altered state ofconsciousness. In this state, which Jordania calls battle trance, hominids and early human were losing their individuality, and were acquiring a new collective identity, where they were not feeling fear or pain,and were religiously dedicated to the group interests, in total disregards of their individual safety and life. This state was needed to defend early hominids from predators, and also to help to obtainfood by aggressive scavenging. Ritualistic actions involving heavy rhythmic music, rhythmic drill, coupled sometimes with dance and body painting had been universally used in traditional culturesbefore the hunting or military sessions in order to put them in a specific altered state of consciousness and raise the morale of participants. More generally, evolutionary psychology and applications infields such as evolutionary musicology, Darwinian literary studies, and evolutionary aesthetics have given several different explanations for the evolutionary origins of the arts.

Ancient Greekart brought the veneration of the animal form and the development of equivalent skills to show musculature, poise, beauty and anatomically correct proportions. Ancient Roman art depicted gods asidealized humans, shown with characteristic distinguishing features (i.e. Zeus' thunderbolt).

In Byzantine and Gothic art of the Middle Ages, the dominance of the church insisted on the expression ofbiblical and not material truths.

Eastern art has generally worked in a style akin to Western medieval art, namely a concentration on surface patterning and local colour (meaning the plain colour...