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This article deals with some prehistoric paintings as evidences of the origin today. Prehistoric paintings are all at the same time symbolic, imaginary and semiotic. I tried to analyse them with the following three semiogènes: pictogramme, ideogramme and psychogramme. Homo sapiens has made the paintings. To show what? To show their world, universe. How? With their world vision through the visual images. We should not judge the Homo Sapiens with our perception of the world today(If not, we will fall into the anachronic fallacy). Their language, the image, is in a broader meaning of the word their écritures, concrete and abstract simultaneously. They
thought and painted with their écritures, images. They are at the same time the artists and the artisans, the proto-types of artist, or simply the artists themselves. I would rather call them Homo Imagicus.