Art is a relatively recent phenomenon. The \(\Lambda \) CDM (Lambda Cold Dark Matter) model, a standard cosmological model for describing the evolution of the universe, tells us that the age of the universe is approximately 13.8 billion years. Evidence of the first life on earth (in the form of single-celled organisms) may be traced to approximately 3.8 billion years ago. By contrast, the first modern humans or Homo sapiens evolved from their early hominid predecessors only around 300,000 to 200,000 years ago. The first agrarian civilizations developed in Mesopotamia around 5200 years ago and Western philosophy as we know it was born around 2600 years ago, with the emergence of the Presocratics. This implies that we have evidence for neither art-making nor artworks for more than 13 billion years, only the hum of physical, chemical, biological, and other related processes. In big historical terms, the human brain is a relatively recent evolutionary development, as are the artifacts (including artworks) associated with human-level intelligence.