Be it in a meeting, a lecture, or at a café, give anyone a pen or a pencil and the instinct is to doodle. While it may not be considered high art, this shows how intrinsic artistic expression is to human nature.
Over the centuries, technological progress has given man new mediums to work in, from the advent of paper to the development of smart phones (for example, David Hockney’s paintings using the iPhone have been displayed at the Royal Academy in London and the Pierre Berge-Yves St. Laurent Foundation in Paris). However, the earliest examples of human symbolism is said to date as far back as 70,000 to 100,000 years ago, where engraved beads and egg shells were used in Africa, predating even the earliest examples of European cave paintings.
