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History of Drawing by Rianne Riddell

  • 30,000 BCE

    Pre Historic

    This is the beginning of art such as wall drawings in caves.
  • 3000 BCE

    Ancient Egypt

    Hieroglyphics were very prominent and pictures and carving of day to day life and deities.
  • 400

    Middle Ages

    Religious drawings and messages called marginalia.
  • 1100

    paper

    this was the year paper was invented
  • Baroque period

    a new style of drawing as introduced that included livelier forms with flowing lines
  • rocco

    it was characterized by the wealthy French culture of the aristocrats
  • pencils

    pencils were first used in the early 1800s
  • impressionism

    it was characterized by small thin visible brush strokes
  • cubism

    characterized by use of geometric planes and shapes
  • expressionism

    distorts radically for emotional effect to evoke moods or ideas