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Essential ArtArchaic and Inuit Art, a comparison

The connection between humans and the creation of art is deep and spans all cultures. From almost the first emergence of Homo sapiens over 32,000 years ago art work has been found and documented. Fast-forward to present day, pockets of people still exists whom share similarities in live style so close to that of archaic people that the resemblance between art styles is astonishing. The Inuit where, until the emergence of market art, were just such a people. I will present three main similarities between archaic and Inuit art work by comparing the art and lifestyles of both groups. By examining the similarities between these two primitive groups a greater understanding of the fundamental relationship between humans and art is achieved.
The Archaic and Inuit both shared a hunter and gather lifestyle. There entire existence depended sole on their abilities to maintain the bear essentials for life which included but not limited to food and protection from the environment. The ...

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