Arts & Culture
Art History
Quick fact
The oldest known figurative art—a painting of a wild pig on a cave wall in Indonesia—is at least 45,500 years old, showing that humans have been making art for tens of thousands of years before written history.
Why this is interesting
You've probably seen a painting and felt something—awe, confusion, or curiosity. But have you ever wondered why a work of art from 1500 looks so different from one created in 1900, and what that shift reveals about the world that produced it?