АНИМАЦИЈАТА И ДУХОВНОСТА (OД ПРАИСТОРИСКАТА ПЕШТЕРСКА УМЕТНОСТ, ПРЕКУ ПЕШТЕРСКИТЕ МАНАСТИРИ ОД СРЕДНИОТ ВЕК ДО СОВРЕМЕНАТА АНИМАЦИЈА)
Animation and Spirituality (From Prehistoric Cave Art, through the Medieval Cave Monasteries, to Contemporary Animation)

Summary/Abstract: The birth of animation in a cinematographic sense can be dated in the late 19 century along with other great industrial and technological breakthroughs. Although it’s a predecessor of film, in order to evolve as a media, animation needed to be reinvented with the evolution of motion picture technology. But even thou it is a new form of art, early forms of animation can date as far as the prehistoric era, in the form of cave paintings. It can also be found in ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and perhaps even in medieval christian cave monasteries in Macedonia. What’s interesting is that the bond in all cases of early animation is spirituality. Of course, one of the etymological definitions of animation is “to breathe life” as in a biblical sense. Many doubted the connection between the prehistoric cave paintings and animation, but new research, especially in the Chauvet cave in Pont-d’Arc shed a new light on this subject.

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