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History of Drawing by Jacob Hoang

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    Pre-historic

    drawing provides some of our oldest accounts of our ancestors. Other early drawings were scratched, carved, or painted onto primitive tools.
  • 300

    Ancient Egypt

    Early Egyptians carved scenes of daily life. Coding with hieroglyphics and religious deities. Similar drawings were drawn with ink on Egyptian papyrus.
  • Period: 400 to Feb 25, 1400

    Middle Ages

    drawing during this era were only for religious beliefs. Monks would illustrate Bibles preparatory stage in creating for royal and wealthy families.
  • Renaissance

    this is where the peak of drawing happens. This is where art has become recognized and respected in it's art form. Artists and scientists became increasingly concerned with creating realistic depictions of the natural world.
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    Baroque Period

    This era intrduced new art material for easier drawing methods. This includes livelier and forms with flowing lines. This period was the Counter-Reformation.
  • Famous Renaissance Artists

    Plenty of Artists use stuff to draw such as chalk and coal to express on paper. The famous people recognized were Leonardo da Vinci, Bosch, and van Eyck
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    1800-1900

    This century began to improve alot. This movement stretch into manufacturing pencils
  • 1850

    This leaded drawing into traditional movement of Impression, Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism, while western art forms of drawing expanded.
  • 1900

    to express oneself through the commonly shared world language of drawing. The 19th to 20th century improved in drawing to a more realistic drawing stand point.
  • 1900 Famous Artist

    Picasso's "Mademoiselle Leonie" exhibit an even more serious step away from the tradtional academy of drawing in his cubist work.