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40,000 BCE
The First Artists
The oldest secure human art that has been found dates to the Late Stone Age during the Upper Paleolithic, possibly from around 70,000 BC but with certainty from around 40,000 BC, when the first creative works were made from shell, stone, and paint by Homo sapiens, using symbolic thought. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_art -
30,000 BCE
Origins of Art
Humans painted realistic images of bulls, bison, stags, horses, and other animals on the walls of the caves of Lascaux. This was an estimate of 100,00 year ago. The oldest form of art are The first and oldest form of prehistoric art are petroglyphs (cupules). https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/1009/Where-does-art-come-from-Indonesian-cave-paintings-deepen-mystery -
1749 BCE
The Start of Art
Art has been around for at least 40,000 years.But they didn't start referring to it as art until the 1700's. There is no specific founder of art. -
1100
Art coming to Europe
Romanesque art refers to the period from about 1000 to the rise of Gothic art in the 12th century. This was a period of increasing prosperity, and the first to see a coherent style used across Europe, from Scandinavia to Switzerland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_Europe -
1503
Most Popular Painting Ever
There are many popular art pieces and for many different reasons. Some because of originality, creativity, difficulty. One that hits home in all of these spots and has been the most popular painting since the 1500's is the Mona Lisa. This painting inspired many other artists as well. Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa from 1503 to 1506, but was considered incomplete by Da Vinci until 1516 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa -
Apr 15, 1542
Professional Artists
Leonardo Da Vinci. Renaissance painter, scientist, inventor, and more. Da Vinci is one of most famous painters in the world for his iconic Mona Lisa and Last Supper https://www.biographyonline.net/artists/top-10-painters.html -
First Art Museum
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford opened on 24 May 1683 as the world's first university art museum. Its first building was built in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave Oxford University in 1677. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum -
Art Schools History
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1805 and is the first and oldest art museum and art school in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Academy_of_the_Fine_Arts -
Entering Education Systems
Art had not been taught in the school systems until the 1830's in the Boston area. Soon after the end of the nineteenth century, the arts were a norm in U.S. public schools. http://ericbooth.net/the-history-of-teaching-artistry-revised-2020/ -
Most Popular Art Type
There are many different types of art, realism, sculpting, the most popular type of art of it's time is realism art. Realism was an artistic movement that emerged in France in the 1840s, around the 1848 Revolution. Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the early 19th century. http://teresabernardart.com/know-your-art-painting-styles-7-most-popular/ -
Diversity in Art
Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist and the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study, and continued to live there after being accepted in French artistic circles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner -
Art Genres History
There are many different types of art genres such as Painting, Sculpting, Still Life, Pop art, Contemporary, Cubism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Portrait, Landscape. While painting might be the most relevant it has a run for it's money. People coming more open to different type of art genres around the early 20th century late 19th century. -
The Thinker
The Thinker is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, usually placed on a stone pedestal. The work shows a nude male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock with his chin resting on one hand as though deep in thought, often used as an image to represent philosophy. It's also one of the most famous realism sculpture ever created. There are 28 different sculptures of "The Thinker" around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker -
First Non White Female artists
Mary Edmonia Lewis was the first American American sculptor who worked for most of her career in Rome, Italy. Born free in New York, she was the first woman of African-American and Native American heritage to achieve international fame and recognition as a sculptor in the fine arts world. She passed away on September 17, 1907 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonia_Lewis -
Art Becoming Popular in America
During the early 1940s, with Europe in ferment, New York quietly took over from Paris as the innovative centre of art. This coincided with the appearance of a the first major American art movement, known as Abstract Expressionism. http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/american-art.htm
