Cave painting was the first step from which all types of art came, such as drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, impressionism, theater, abstract, expressionism, cinema, and digital arts. It was the only thing our ancestors could look back to and understand their way of life, what the world was like through their eyes, and how they expressed them.
“Early Humans Made Animated Art: How Paleolithic artists used fire to set the world’s oldest art in motion” article by Zach Zorich
Magic Lantern, to me, felt like the origin of how images shown on television came to be in this current age. Émile Reynaud’s Théâtre Optique felt like the core of all classic cartoon TV shows due to his magnificent device that involved hand-painted, animated, and moving images. I’m more accustomed to animation, and this felt like the origin of where my art skill comes from. Charles-Èmile Reynauld’s Théâtre Optique, 1892