History Of Painting

Historically, art was strongly associated with images. Prehistoric relics show that since thousands of years ago, human ancestors had begun making drawings on cave walls to portray the important parts of their lives.

All cultures in the world to know the art of painting. This is because a painting or drawing is very easy to make. A painting or drawing can be made simply by using simple materials such as charcoal, chalk, or other materials. One technique made famous picture of prehistoric cave people is to put a hand on the cave wall, then menyemburnya to chew the leaves or stone-colored minerals.

The result is plagiarism colored hand-colored on the walls of caves that can still be seen today. This convenience allows the image (and subsequent painting) to grow faster than other branches of fine arts such as sculpture and ceramic art.

Such as drawings, paintings mostly made on a flat surface such as walls, floors, paper, or canvas. In modern art education in Indonesia, this property is also called the bi-dimension (two dimensional, flat dimensions). Along with the development of civilization, the ancestors of humans increasingly adept at making shapes and arrange them in the picture, it automatically works they began forming a composition of form and narrative (story / story) in his works.

Objects that often appear in works of ancient human beings, animals and other natural objects such as trees, hills, mountains, rivers, and seas. The shape of the object being drawn are not always similar to the original. This is called the image and was greatly influenced by the painter's understanding of its object. For example, a picture of a bull's horn is made with the proportion of unusually large compared with the size of the original horn. Imaging is influenced by the understanding of the painter who thinks the horn is the most impressive part of a bull. Therefore, the image of one kind of object to be different depending on the communities' cultural understanding. Imaging is becoming very important because it is also influenced by the imagination. In the development of painting, imagination plays an important role until now.

At first, the development of painting is strongly associated with the development of human civilization. Language system, how to survive (scavenging, hunting and trapping, and plant crops), and trust (as the embryo of religion) are the things that influenced the development of painting. This influence is seen in the types of objects, imagery and narrative in it. In this period, painting has a special purpose, such as recording media (in the form of a way) to diulangkisahkan. Idle moments in prehistoric times one of which is filled with drawing and painting. Way communication using images in turn stimulates the formation of the writing system because the letter actually comes from the symbols of the image which is then simplified and standardized.

At one point, there are certain people in a group of prehistoric people who would rather spend time to draw rather than looking for food. They began to make advanced picture and begin to find that the shape and composition of a particular form, when arranged in such a way, it would seem more interesting to see than usual. They began to find some kind of flavor of beauty in its activities and continue to do so so that they become more expert. They are the first artists on the earth and that's when drawing and painting began leaning into an art activity.