The History of Drawing

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    Scientists attached to the latest research explain how they dated the paintings and their significance. More than 65,000 years ago, a Neanderthal reached out and made strokes in red ochre on the wall of a cave, and in doing so, became the first known artist on Earth, scientists claim.
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    In 18th-century London, the royal morning receptions that the French called levées were called "drawing rooms", with the sense originally that the privileged members of court would gather in the drawing room outside the king's bedroom, where he would make his first formal public appearance of the day.
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    So is drawing a talent or skill? Drawing is a Skill, so you can learn how to draw even if you are not talented. It will take more time and effort but generally the artists who are not that talented most of the time outperform the talented artists in the long run.
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    Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing has been a popular and fundamental means of public expression throughout human history.
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    The point of drawing is to create an image. For Example: A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).
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    Sketching is the most inexpensive art medium. Sketches can be made in any drawing medium. The term is most often applied to graphic work executed in a dry medium such as silverpoint, graphite, pencil, charcoal or pastel. ... The latter two are generally referred to as "water colour sketches" and "oil sketches".
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    Looking at Cézanne's output afresh, Klein makes the case for the painter as being 'father of Modern art', his works inspiring countless Modern and contemporary masters since. Paul Cézanne is probably one of the most famous artists of all time. Picasso said 'he was our one and only master'.
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    The arts have also been classified as seven: painting, architecture, sculpture, literature, music, performing and cinema.
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    Drawing is one of the ways to express yourself, your feelings, what goes on in your head. And it's beautiful. It gives us a certain amount of satisfaction when we accomplish something. And when it's something entirely yours, it makes you feel good.
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    Drawing is hard because our brains interpret anything we see as a whole, and our eyes don't create an authentic image of what we draw. Drawing becomes even more difficult because we tend to draw things as we know them, but not as they are. Learning to see is hard, so drawing is hard. Well not really.