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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greeks most often practiced a drawing quite like the Egyptians, on pottery, depicting famous battle scenes and myths. The pottery drawings spanned from 1050BC to 530BC. -
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Pre-Historic
Mainly cave drawing, but other art has been found scratched or carved into tools and weapons. The earliest drawings were found in Altamira, Spain and Lascaux, France dating back to 30,000 - 10,000 BCE. But pre-historic drawing is estimated from 2.5 million - 500 BCE -
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptians carved scenes of their daily life, along with their gods and deities into temple and tomb walls. They painted them and even practiced drawing with ink on papyrus, a paper-like material made from the papyrus plant that grew along the Nile River. Egyptians used a flat linerar style in their drawings. 3,000 BC -
Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
Middle Ages
Drawings during this time usually expressed religious messages or were precursours for painting on canvas. Many drawings were done on wood or wax to prepare for a painting and then thrown away, so not many drawings from the Middle Ages survive today. -
Period: Dec 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1450
Renaissance
Drawing not only began to become what we know of it todya, but was considered a respectablea art form during this time. Drawing was now something art students were trained in before anything else. Also at this time, drawing became improtant for scientists to create accurate depictions of the natural world. Old master Leonardo Da Vinci thrived during this time with his portraiture, which became exceedingly popular commercially. -
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Baroque
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Baroque
During the 1600s and 1700s Baroque drawing took hold with livlier forms woth flowing lines. Baroque art showed movement, contours, shading. And now was the time artists began to have access to sketchbooks, so they could go outside to do landscapes. -
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Rococo
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Rococo
Also known as "late baroque", Rococo art is an elaborately ornamental style of decoration in Continental Europe, prevalent to the 18th century.The style use consists of many asymetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork. -
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Expressionism
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Impressionism
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Impressionism
Impressionism was a style or movement originating in France in the 1860s to the 1870s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of shifting the effects of light and colour. -
Expressionism
Espressionism is a style of painting, music, and drama in which and artist or writer seeks to express an emotional experience rather than impressions of an external world. It became very popular in Germany during and after the first world war because of the way the artists could express their views about the war. -
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Fauvism
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Fauvism
Fauvism is a style of painting with vivid expressionistic and nonnaturalistic use of colour that flourished in Paris from 1904 to 1908, even though the style began around 1900 and lasted through 1910, the movement was shortlived. The German artist Matisse was regarded as the movements leading figure. -
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Cubism
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Cubism
Beginning in the 1910s and lasting into the 1920s, cubism is an avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European art. A perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and collage. Pablo Picasso was a leading figure during this time and his paintings were not ver popular during his life because of their strange nature, but now, Cubism has been considered the most influentian art movement of the 20th century. -
Middle Ages
Drawings during this time usually expressed religious messages or were precursours for painting on canvas. Many drawings were done on wood or wax to prepare for a painting and then thrown away, so not many drawings from the Middle Ages survive today.