IS IT ART?

Revisiting the subject of "is rock art really art?" This one question probably generates more arguements in the field than anything else. Second would probably be the S-word, "Shamanism," and epigraphy coming in at the third position. This small quotation adds no clarification either way, but as an unapologetic fan of Kipling's writing I loved it (Robert W. Service too, but that is another question). I merely pass this on for your own enjoyment. 

“When the flush of a new-born sun fell on Eden’s green and gold,

Our father Adam sat under a tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,

Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves “It’s pretty, but is it Art?”

REFERENCE:

Kipling, Rudyard

1890    Conundrum of the Workshop