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Firstpost: Art in the time of coronavirus: Indian artists channel lockdown experiences into insightful evocative works

By Aarushi Agrawal

Among the oldest surviving paintings in the world are a series of handprints, part of the cave paintings in France’s Chauvet Cave, roughly 30,000 years old. The 2010 documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams shows how each handprint has the same distinct small finger, suggesting they were all made by the same person.

In acting as an archive, art here has worked to preserve history within its strokes, and communicated to the future what is today considered vital information about humanity’s collective cultural history. As a microhistory of that place and time, it records not just the existence of a person with a crooked little finger, but also marks their faculties of imagination and creation.

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