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first ever known pieces of art depicting animals or figures of people -
ancient Egyptians made art into the walls of their temples and tombs usually depicting gods or deities -
their art mainly consisted of pottery drawings of myths or battles that had taken place -
the middle ages was a period in which their art consisted of depictions of religion on canvas or tablets often called marginalia -
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 -
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 -
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