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Period: 30,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE
Pre-Historic
The Earliest Known Art work is from these times, and they were found on caves walls of Altamira, Spain, and Lascaux, France. -
Period: 3000 BCE to 100
Ancient Egyptian
Drawings have been found drawn with ink on Egyptian Papyrus, a paper-like material made from the papyrus plant that grew along the Nile River. Egyptian drawings use a flat, linear style. -
Period: 900 BCE to 30 BCE
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greeks have several lasting artifacts of their drawing. The Vases and pottery that were drawn or painted on by Ancient Greeks exhibit their graceful, decorative use of Drawing. The Greeks use drawing to depict scenes of battles and myths. -
Period: 400 to Dec 25, 1400
Middle Ages
Drawings were produced primarily to express religious messages and stories of the bible. Monks used drawing and painting to illustrate Bibles and prayer books for royal and wealthy families. Drawing became primarily a preparatory stage i creating paintings, rather than a finished product, so very few still survive in museums and art collections today. Common;y. People would draw their preparations for paintings of wood, slate, or wax, because parchment and animal hides were expensive. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
Drawing began to take the form we recognize today during the Renaissance. In Italy, drawing became recognized as a respectable art form because of the ride of the use of paper. Drawing became the foundation of all art work; art students were trained in drawing before their training in other forms of art-painting, sculpture, or architecture. At this time, drawing also became important to scientists to recored their learning about the physical world. -
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Baroque Period
The Baroque period introduced a new style of drawing that included livelier forms with flowing lines. During this time, artists also began using water color and ink washes. Another characteristic of the Baroque period was the Counter-Reformation. A leading artist of the Counter-Reformation was Peter Paul Rubens, who used a new technique called open composition, a style in which the piece of art seems to burst through the canvas itself. -
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1800's and 1900's
Innovation defines the advancements of the 19th and 20th centuries in the art form of drawing. Pencils were first manufactured early in the 19th century and quickly became the most preferred drawing tools. Ingres and Goya were the principle artists spearheading the us of this new tool. Capturing movement of everyday scenes, ballet dancers, horse races and even dreams became signatures of these artists.