The evolution of art

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    Lower Paleolithic

    Lower Paleolithic
    (2,500,000 - 200,000 BCE)
    In the lower Paleolithic the type of art is rock art like arrow heads and axe heads.
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    Upper Paleolithic

    Upper Paleolithic
    (40,000-8,000 BCE)The major period of early fine art, exemplified by portable art like the Venus Figurines, sculpture and the cave paintings of Lascaux and Altamira. Early ceramic pottery also appears.
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    Mesolithic Period

    Mesolithic Period
    (Europe: c.10,000 - 4,000 BCE, Europe)
    Mesolithic was a short period with the hunter-gathers of the Paleolithic period and the farming of the Neolithic, during which the ice retreated to the poles and melted. In ice-free regions, there is a shorter Mesolithic period or else the Neolithic period begins immediately, leading to more sophicated sculpture, open-air rock art and the growth of portable art
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    Neolithic Period

    Neolithic Period
    (Europe: c.4,000 - 2,000 BCE)
    The great civilizations appear, including Sumer, Egypt and Persia, as well as India. Cities like Jericho, are built, useing all sorts of architecture and forms of public art. Tomb art, created by egyptians becomes highly developed.
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    The Mona Lisa/Leonardo da Vinci

    The Mona Lisa/Leonardo da Vinci
    The Mona Lisa is famous for a variety of reasons. One of the reasons, of course, for the popularity of the painting is the artist himself. Leonardo da Vinci is perhaps the most recognized artist in the world. Not only was Da Vinci an artist, but he was also a scientist, inventor, and a doctor.
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  • Old Guitarist\Pablo Picasso

    Old Guitarist\Pablo Picasso
    Pablo Picasso drew the Old Guitarist when he was in the blue time period. This represents sadness. The style of this painting was cudism. (It is an oil painting.) This was done in 1903.
  • The Persistence of Memory

    The Persistence of Memory
    The Persistence of Memory shows a scene showing pocket watches, melting slowly on rocks and branches of a tree, with the ocean as a back round. A part of the painting is expoused to sunlight and a part is surrounded in a shadow. Looking carefully you can see two small rocks, one in the sunlight and the other in the shadow.
  • Modern art

    Modern art
    In todays modern art, it can be anything.What ever pops in you head, then paint it on paper or make into some thing that can be art.
  • Future art

    We think that as time pases there will be different and new styles of art I think that later on instead of using a pencil or a brush we will use holograms.