The origin of sketch

The origin of sketch: human beings began to understand that painting began with sketch. According to archaeological findings, the earliest murals in the world are the cave murals named Gesco near Dordogne in the province of Legal in southwest France and the cave murals in altamira Mountain in northern Spain. The former was 20,000 years ago, and the latter was about 1 10,000 years ago.

Primitive people used the simplest materials to draw prey in hunting activities. The bison in the rock paintings of altamira in northern Spain are especially wonderful. Among them, a buffalo with its head bowed forward, like an arrow leaving the string, is full of outward movement. It is painted with deer fat smoke. Then paint it with red minerals. Because of its single drawing, it is the oldest sketch in the world.

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Development of sketch: In the history of world art development, sketch developed from ancient times-ancient Egypt-ancient Greece-ancient Rome-Middle Ages-Renaissance.

Among them, the feudal rule in the Middle Ages became more and more autocratic, and the concept of asceticism led to people's ideological imprisonment. The painted characters were all one-sided, expressionless and out of proportion. Therefore, the sketches of this period are a dark period and a naive period. The real development of sketch was after the Renaissance.

Renaissance: During this period, sketch ushered in an unprecedented explosion, and many masters were born, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Giotto, Titian and Tintoretto. Due to the development of science and the combination of science and art, painters have established scientific painting basic theory, art theory and sketch theory on the basis of extensive practice. Promote the development of sketch.

The first artistic theory was born in this period-The Theory of Painting by Leon Batista Alberti spoke highly of the realism and perspective basic theory of painting. He also emphasized that the painter's creative research on objects has the ability to visually synthesize objects. For this reason, he first proposed that painters should start training from the simplest geometric model, which is the earliest theoretical preparation for basic sketch training.

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