美术历史悠久,在考古学和美术史上,人们常常把原始社会早期的石制生产工具,称作原始美术或原始造型艺术。石器时代所创造的生产工具,孕育着人类的智慧与才能,也同时孕育了人类早期审美意识的胚胎。而在一开始,整个原始社会人类对这种近似艺术形式的认识是统一的,并没有分流,如几万年前我国“山顶洞人”的装饰品和欧洲的洞穴壁画,以及一些小型雕刻。这是因为早期原始社会生产力低下,它们完全是为着实用目的而产生的。而随着社会进步,生产力 Art has a long history. In the history of archeology and art, people often refer to the early stone-making tools of Primitive Society as primitive art or primitive style art. The tools of production created by the Stone Age gave birth to the wisdom and talents of humankind and at the same time gave birth to the embryos of early aesthetic awareness of mankind. At the very beginning, human beings in the entire primitive society had a unified understanding of this approximate art form without diversion. For example, tens of thousands of years ago, China’s “cave people” ornaments and European cave paintings, as well as some small sculptures . This is because of the low productivity of primitive society in the early years, which were created purely for practical purposes. With the social progress, productivity