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Some of forms of art exists everywhere on this planet. The story of art as a continuous effort does not begin in the caves of southern France or among the North American Indians. There is no direct tradition which links these strange beginings with our own days, but there is a direct tradition, handed down from master to student, and from student, and from student to asmirer or copyist, which links the art of our …

…adorned the walls of the tombs. The word ¡®adrned¡¯, it is true, may hardly fit an art which was meant to be seen by no one but the dead man¡¯s soul. In fact, these works were not to intended to be enjoyed. They were meant to ¡®keep alive¡¯. Once, in a grim distant past, it had been the custom when a powerful man died to let his servants and slaves accompany him into grave.