It is not important to know why they created their works. However, when we do know, it does help to understand why they created them; by knowing the reasoning behind them, it helps us to understand the pieces better. Like with the cave paintings in our book, we do not know why they are there, but we have assumptions or “theories” of to what their purpose was. If we had facts about those pieces then we would know what purpose they served at that point in time. I believe that by knowing the meaning or the purpose behind the art, and then we can connect better to its purpose. Everyone sees and interprets things differently, so what I see and what my child sees are two different things. They could draw what clearly looks like a potato with legs,
