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pre-historic
The earliesty known drawings date back to 30,000-10,000 BCE, and were found on cave walls of Altamira, Spain and Lascaux, France, located in northern Spain and Southern France. Other drawings were scratched, carved or painted onto primitive tools. -
Ancient Egypt
Early Egyptians also decorated the walls of their temples and tombs by carving scenes of daily life,hieroglyphics and religious deities, or god, as early as 3,000bc. -
Ancient Greece
The vases and pottery were drawn or painted on by Ancient greeks exhibit their graceful, decorative use of drawing. -
middle ages
drawing were produced primerily to express religious messages and stories of the bible -
middle ages
during middle ages, artist also kept model books, where they would store images of the human figure or subjecs from nature to copy their own work rather than using a live model each time. -
renassiance
at the time drawing became important to scientists to record their learning about the physical world. Artists and scientists became increasingly concerned with creating realistic depictions of the natural world -
Renaissance
At the time, portraiture became popular houshold items among wealthy families -
Baroque Period
The Baroque period introducted a new style of drawing that included livelier forms with flowing lines. during this time, artists also began using water clor and ink wahes -
Baroque period
The advancments created cheaper supplies, appreciation of art, and a new techniques to explore, led to new expiriments -
1800-1900
This daring, bold move away from traditional scenes led artist to begin questioning traditional academic training and paved the way for an expansion of the definition of drawing, which led to varios movements of impressionism, Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism, and other great movements of the 19th century.
