[strix_mahalo]

Yes, but they didn't have art schools, museums, supplies and they didn't doodle in boring classes or meetings. They didn't have an "art tradition" - or at least not in the way we do now - they had invented it themselves.

If Rembrandt, Raphael or Warhol were born back then they wouldn't have had the cultural milieu to create the same things.

[_bernd]

Funny anecdote, that when Picasso visited these places in southern France, he said: we have learned nothing.

Or something similar. Compare it with his style when he got older. It's related.