Nature, Necessity, Art

Insofar as the possession of opposing thumbs facilitates the instinctual drive in humans to use tools as a means of survival, one way to overcome such 'natural necessity' is to detach the means from the end.  And, indeed, the enjoyment of artistic implements, e. g. musical instruments, for their own sake, exemplifies such detachment.  Now, it seems difficult to establishment which is historically prior--the purposeful or the purposeless, use of implements.  Regardless, the latter is available to Marx-Engels as a model of the Play into which Labor can be transformed through their posited overcoming of 'natural necessity' by the transition to Socialism.  On that interpretation of their plan, Socialism transcends Necessity, but not Nature.