Who painted the first pictures? Detailed answer

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The first artists on earth were cavemen. On the walls of caves in southern France and Spain, colored drawings of animals were found, which were made in the period from 30 to 000 BC. Many of these drawings are surprisingly well preserved because the caves were unknown for many centuries. Ancient people drew wild animals that they saw around them. Human figures, very immature in technique, but drawn in lifelike poses, have been discovered in Africa and eastern Spain.

Cave artists painted the walls of the caves with a variety of bright colors. Earth ocher (iron oxides of various colors - from bright yellow to dark orange) and manganese (a metallic element) were used as dyes. They were crushed into powder, mixed with fat, animal fat and applied with a kind of brush. Sometimes dyes, crushed into powder and mixed with lard, were filled with wooden sticks, which became like “colored pencils”.

Cavemen had to make tassels from animal hair or plant fibers and sharp, honed flint chisels for scratching lines. One of the earliest civilizations appeared in Egypt, and then there were artists who painted pictures. Many works of art were created to decorate the pyramids and tombs of pharaohs and other important people. On the wall canvas of the tombs, artists immortalized scenes from a person's life. They used watercolors and whitewash.

Another ancient civilization - the Aegean - also reached a significant level of development of the art of painting. Their artists worked in a free and elegant style, they depicted the life of the sea, animals, flowers, sports games. Their drawings were made on wet plaster. We now call this special kind of painting frescoes. So you see that drawing has its roots in the very early years of human civilization.

Author: Likum A.

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