I'm sure everyone's asking the same thing about everything: "How did it start?". This question applies to EVERYTHING! May it be dancing, singing, the latest trends or even how we were created. EVERY POSSIBLE THING - YOU NAME IT! This too goes for the art enthusiasts. How exactly did art start? What happened for such beauty to exist? Let me tell you, it all began way back (more than you can imagine) during the ancient era. I'm gonna have to apologize in advance because my brain has somehow reached full capacity and I am literally crying internally for having to deal with this blog entry. Please do bear with this messy thread.
Bold outlines, bland colors, recording, rituals, deities, depiction - that's what ancient art is all about! Ancient art mostly depicted living things. Animal subjects were dominant during the prehistoric era. The ancient art started around 2,500,000 BCE ago. I suppose everyone's familiar with the popular film 'Ice Age'. As freezing as the words seem, that's how it actually was during the ice age era, maybe even worse. Due to the cold weather, people retreated to the warmth of caves and that's where the first attempt at art occurred. The great wall paintings were said to be "accidentally" discovered when two men followed their dog who chased a ball all the way down a hole.
They saw various paintings of animals that seem to be stampeding in different directions. The first and main unproven reason as to why their subjects were animals (mostly) and humans is to record. The cave paintings served as a form of recording their daily lives and some believed that "capturing" the animals in the painting would help them catch animals in real life.
Humans, however, were the more common subjects in the succeeding eras such as the art of near east cities (Sumer, Babylon, Akkad, etc.), Egyptian art, Aegean art.
They were mostly deities or the people that they praised and the artworks were created mostly in their favor to appease them. These artworks' face profiles are exclusively detailed. If not based on humans, the artworks were architectural but still served as a vessel to pray to their gods (temples, etc.) Art in Jerusalem was more profound of buildings/ architectural art - referring to mosques and churches. These were often barricaded with walls to separate people of different religion.
These are the primary things that has helped art to reach where it is now. Without the discovery of these, art would never had existed. There would be no splash of colors, a hint of lines, and a dash of beauty in our lives.
(All photos taken from google. Credits to the owners.)
Bold outlines, bland colors, recording, rituals, deities, depiction - that's what ancient art is all about! Ancient art mostly depicted living things. Animal subjects were dominant during the prehistoric era. The ancient art started around 2,500,000 BCE ago. I suppose everyone's familiar with the popular film 'Ice Age'. As freezing as the words seem, that's how it actually was during the ice age era, maybe even worse. Due to the cold weather, people retreated to the warmth of caves and that's where the first attempt at art occurred. The great wall paintings were said to be "accidentally" discovered when two men followed their dog who chased a ball all the way down a hole.
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| The famous "Hall of Bulls" in Lascaux, France. |
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| An artwork dedicated to King "Tut" Tutankhamun |
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| Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem |
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| Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem |
These are the primary things that has helped art to reach where it is now. Without the discovery of these, art would never had existed. There would be no splash of colors, a hint of lines, and a dash of beauty in our lives.
(All photos taken from google. Credits to the owners.)
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