History
The earliest known drawings date from 30000 to 10000 BC. They are found on the wall caves in France and Spain. Other examples of early drawings are designs that were scratched, carved or painted on the surfaces of primitive tools.
North Africa
Many cave paintings are found in the Tassili n'Ajjer mountains in southeast Algeria. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the rock art was first discovered in 1933 and has since yielded 15,000 engravings and drawings that keep a record of the various animal migrations, climatic shifts, and change in human inhabitation patterns in this part of the Sahara from 6000 BCE to the late classical period. The Cave of Swimmers and the Cave of Beasts in southwest Egypt, near the border with Libya, in the mountainous Gilf Kebir region of the Sahara Desert. The site contains rock painting images of people swimming, which are estimated to have been created 10,000 years ago during the time of the most recent Ice Age.
After several thousands year later the paper making process was invented in China during the Eastern Han period (25-220 AD), traditionally attributed to the court official Cai Lun.. Artists from the Han (206 BC – 220 AD) to the Tang (618–906) dynasties mainly painted the human figure. Much of what we know of early Chinese figure painting comes from burial sites, where paintings were preserved on silk banners, lacquered objects, and tomb walls. Many early tomb paintings were meant to protect the dead or help their souls to get to paradise.
Later the greatest painter, inventor, sculptor, architect, scientist, musician,
mathematician, engineer, anatomist, geologist, astronomer, botanist, writer,
historian and cartographer was born and his name is Leonardo da Vinci.
When he first designed the first model of airplane everyone were saying
that he's crazy there can't be something that can fly. But look, now everyone
is traveling by an airplane.
Now one of his most famous painting Mona Lisa is now on permanent display at Louvre Museum in Paris, France since 1797.
Claude Monet
Claude Monet was the leader of the French Impressionist movement,
literally giving the movement its name. As an inspirational talent and
personality, he was crucial in bringing its adherents together. Interested in
painting in the open air and capturing natural light, Monet would later
bring the technique to one of its most famous pinnacles with his series of
paintings, in which his observations of the same subject, viewed at various
times of the day, were captured in numerous sequences of paintings.
Masterful as a colorist and as a painter of light and atmosphere, his later work often achieved a remarkable degree of abstraction, and this has recommended him to subsequent generations of abstract painters.
Michelangelo
Michelangelo changed the world by helping people view art and artists
differently. Michelangelo changed the world's opinion of artists through
his extraordinary works of art. Michelangelo was not just a sculptor; he
was an important painter and prolific architect as well. His paintings
are considered some of the world's greatest showpieces. These paintings
include the elaborate and detailed Sistine Chapel ceiling, which
includes various painted elements to form a large scheme within the
Chapel. As an architect, he designed the final plans for the St. Peter's Cathedral in the Vatican.
His work is considered the beginning of the High Renaissance, a period of time where the world came to recognize and appreciate the value of visual arts.
Rembrandt
Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers
in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people
in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known
as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favoured an
uncompromising realism that would lead some critics to claim that he
preferred ugliness to beauty.
Picasso
One of the most important roles in the development of modern art
was Cubism. Cubism was created by Picasso himself along with
Georges Braque and had a huge impact on the world because this
new painting style provided a different way of seeing. The origins
of cubism started off with just one painting by Picasso.
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali is among the most versatile and prolific artists of the
twentieth century and the most famous Surrealist. Dali was renowned for
his flamboyant personality and role of mischievous provocative as much as
for his undeniable technical virtuosity. His paintings also evince a
fascination for Classical and Renaissance art, clearly visible through his
hyper-realistic style and religious symbolism of his later work.
Jackson Pollock
He is famous for helping to create a whole new art movement
called Abstract Expressionism. An "abstract" image is one where
the subject is not represented realistically. Instead, the artist uses
color and shapes to suggest the most general qualities of the
subject. "Expressionism" is a kind of art that expresses feelings and
thoughts. Abstract Expressionism is art that shows emotions and ideas through non-representational forms.
Andy Warhol
He began his painting career as part of the Pop Art movement. This
movement was at its strongest during the 1960’s. Pop Art was defined
by images of material goods and popular culture. Pop artists rejected
the serious nature of the art world. To do this, these artists painted or
printed everyday images of things that usually are not considered art.
These images included photographs from magazines, drink advertisements and drawings from popular comic strips.
The ability to draw by hand precise technical drawings and expressive sketches- has been central to the architecture profession. But with the release and subsequent popularization of Computer Aided Design(CAD) programs since the early 1980s, the prestige of hand drawing has been under siege. Today with increasingly sophisticated design and presentation software, from Revit to Rhinoceros, gaining in popularity, the importance of hand drawing has become a topic of heated discussion.
So after these stories, we can say that artists changed our world for the better, because without them our lives would be different, and we wouldn’t be able to understand the art.
