When was art invented

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Photo Galleries. About Us. Get stories that empower and uplift daily. See our other FREE newsletters. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy. Select free newsletters: The Weekender. Today's Highlights. Christian Science Perspective. Kinez Riza. Europeans may not have been the first cave artists. Some prehistoric paintings in Indonesia, such as the hand stencils shown here, could be more than 40, years old. Prehistoric 'popcorn' Adam Brumm, an archaeologist at Australia's University of Wollongong, first noticed small cauliflowerlike knobs on some of the hand stencils while doing research in Sulawesi in Yet those people did not invent art, either.

If art had a single inventor, she or he was an African who lived more than 70, years ago. That is the age of the oldest work of art in the world, a piece of soft red stone that someone scratched lines on in a place called Blombos Cave. But then some say "hand axes" shaped by even older ancestors count as art because they show a sense of beauty. The importance of painting is due to the fact that it is as old as the history of mankind. Historians, Philosophers, Anthropologists try to find answers about our own existence and painting is one of the ways they use to try to explain the development of extinct civilizations and cultures.

Since the cave paintings made by primitive peoples, man tries to express his beliefs, his activities, his daily life and the way he sees the world around him. That is why the history of art is usually organized in periods that follow the very development of civilizations. Painting is so important that it has become one of the main forms of representation, and communication from primitive peoples, through the Renaissance to the present day.

And through the Art Galleries she gains space again, so much so that she lives her peak, painters begin to be recognized in various parts of the world, thanks to the exhibitions. From the evolution of Modern Art and new technologies, painters adapted techniques creating new forms of representation and visual expression.

Several artists experiment with painting with other art forms, such as photography for example, creating collages and prints, thus new movements of Painting are born, such as Dada and Pop Art, creating new forms of representation and visual expression. Painting overcame territorial and technical barriers, reinvented itself over thousands of years, from Rock Painting to Pop Art, we can say that the importance of painting is that it has become a way for humanity to express itself and that it has influenced since our culture, even politics and economics.

The History of paintings is very important, because we learn about important facts in history, literature, religion, and mythology. All rights reserved. History of Painting — Rock Art Who made the first painting? A recent discovery in the Cave of Nerja, in Malaga, Spain, discovered paintings over 42, years old, and they can change our ideas about the evolution of humanity.

Learn More ». Give Now ». Noon Edition. Home Archives About Contact. Media Player Error Update your browser or Flash plugin. High Cave Culture Seventeen thousand years ago, humans painted realistic images of bulls, bison, stags, horses, and other animals on the walls of the caves of Lascaux, in France.