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History of Drawing by Nick White

  • 30,000 BCE

    pre-historic

    pre-historic
    first ever known pieces of art depicting animals or figures of people
  • 3000 BCE

    ancient egypt

    ancient egypt
    ancient Egyptians made art into the walls of their temples and tombs usually depicting gods or deities
  • 700 BCE

    ancient greece

    ancient greece
    their art mainly consisted of pottery drawings of myths or battles that had taken place
  • 400

    middle ages

    middle ages
    the middle ages was a period in which their art consisted of depictions of religion on canvas or tablets often called marginalia
  • 1400

    renaissance

    renaissance
    when art started to take form into what more modern pieces of art look like along with new techniques like using chalk and charcoal along with the invention of portraits
  • baroque

    baroque
    the baroque period marked the beginning of new art techniques like using water colors and ink washes along with new inventions like sketchbooks which allowed for artists to go outside and draw landscapes there by allowing them to have more accurate depictions of scenes beyond their memory of it
  • pre-modern

    pre-modern
    the 18 to 19 hundreds era was when innovation started to define the advancements of art with the invention of pencils which became the most preferred tool to draw along with various new art movements like impressionism, cubism, expressionism, and fauvism to say a few