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The German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno made this declaration in 1970, marking a turning point where artists and thinkers stopped assuming any fixed definition of their craft existed.
The Riesenhirschknochen der Einhornhöhle from Germany stands as the oldest piece of art found in Europe at 51,000 years old.
Kunstmuseum Basel opened the first public museum of art in the world in the year 1661 within the city of Switzerland.
Francisco Goya created the graphic depiction firing squad executing several pleading civilians on the 3rd of May 1808 to demonstrate keen artistic ability composition execution producing fitting social political outrage despite horrific imagery.
Sculptures and cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic period emerged roughly 40,000 years ago within the Swabian Jura UNESCO World Heritage Site, with the Venus of Hohle Fels representing one of the first undisputed sculptures alongside carved animal and humanoid figurines dating between 43,000 and 35,000 BC.