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The earliest drawings have been found in caves. These are found in France & Spain.
Photo : Unknown Artist, 30000 BC, Drawing -
Ancient Egyptians began decorating their tombs with drawings of their daily life. They also started writing on early forms of paper.
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The surviving evidence of drawing in Greek history is designs on pottery.
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ericho, often quoted as the first town, grows into a settlement covering ten acres
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Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus successfully predicts a solar eclipse on May 28.
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Drawings were being used as narration.
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Paper was invented around 100 BC in China
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Drawings emerged in bibles and books written by monks. During this time art was focused around religion.
Photo : Artist Unknown (ancient monk) , Bible, animal skin -
Modern drawing in began in the 1400's , during the period known as the Renaissance.
Photo : Parri Spinelli, Crucifixion 1440s , Sinopia on plaster -
In 1473, he completed Landscape Drawing , a pen and ink depiction of the Arno River valley.
Photo : Paesaggio con fiume, 1473,ink on paper, Da Vinci -
Christopher Columbus sets out on three ships
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Artist began to prefer the precision of metal point on paper, instead of graphite.
Photo : Jan van Eyck, Portrait of an Unknown Man, c. 1435-40, silverpoint on prepared paper -
First black slaves brought to America
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Astronomer Galileo explained the changing phases of the moon through his drawings.
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Great Plague in London kills 75,000.
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Neoclassicism is the term for movements in the arts that draw inspiration from the classical art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome
Photo: John Flaxman, The Judgment of Paris or Paris and Oenone, 1791. Gray ink wash -
The modern pencil was invented in 1795 by Nicholas-Jacques Conte
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U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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On March 30, 1858, Hymen Lipman of Philadelphia, USA, received the first patent for attaching an eraser to the end of a pencil.
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Created in 1890 with pencil, this drawing of a chair was created with pencil.
photo: Vincent van Gogh
Drawing, Pencil
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art emphasised speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city.
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"Surrealistic art is characterized by dream-like visuals, the use of symbolism, and collage images", surrealism becomes popular.
Photo: Eolo Pons "España Tell" (Homage to José Planas Casas)
Surrealist Pencil Drawing, 1939 -
large-scale, abstract drawings showing pure emotion in line, color, and shape.
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Pop art is bright, bold representations of culture.
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art in which the idea presented by the artist is considered more important than the finished product, if there is one.
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Minimalism or minimalist art can be seen as extending the abstract idea that art should have its own reality and not be an imitation of some other thing
Photo: Alias of Ksenija Pantelić, pencil and paper -
Neo-expressionism developed as a reaction against conceptual art and minimal art of the 1970s.
