History of Paintings

HISTORY

OF

PAINTING

The oldest known paintings are

approximately 40,000 years old. José Luis

Sanchidrián, believes the paintings are more

likely to have been painted by Neanderthals

than early modern humans.

The Grotte Chauvet in France is claimed by

some historians to be about 32,000 years old.

They are engraved and painted using red

ochre and black pigment and show horses,

rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, mammoth or humans

often hunting. There are examples of cave

paintings all over the world—in France, India,

Spain, Portugal, China, Australia etc

Prehistoric men may have painted

animals to "catch" their soul or spirit in

order to hunt them more easily or the

paintings may represent an animistic

vision and homage to surrounding nature,

or they may be the result of a basic need

of expression that is innate to human

beings, or they could have been for the

transmission of practical information.

Chinese painting is one of the oldest

continuous artistic traditions in the world.

The earliest paintings were not

representational but ornamental; they

consisted of patterns or designs rather than

pictures.

Japanese painting is one of the oldest and

most highly refined of the Japanese arts,

encompassing a wide variety of genre and

styles. The history of Japanese painting is a

long history of synthesis and competition

between native Japanese aesthetics and

adaptation of imported ideas.

The history of Korean painting is dated to

approximately 108 C.E., when it first

appears as an independent form. Between

that time and the paintings and frescoes that

appear on the Goryeo dynasty tombs, there

has been little research.

Indian paintings historically revolved

around the religious deities and kings.

Indian art is a collective term for several

different schools of art that existed in the

Indian subcontinent. The paintings varied

from large frescoes of Ajanta to the intricate

Mughal miniature paintings to the metal

embellished works from the Tanjore school.

. Egyptian painting has close

connection with its written language –

called Egyptian hieroglyphs. Painted

symbols are found amongst the first

forms of written language. The

Egyptians also painted on linen,

remnants of which survive today.

Ancient Egyptian paintings survived

due to the extremely dry climate.

Ancient

Egypt,The

Goddess Isis,

wall painting

Ancient Egypt, papyrus

The Renaissance is said by many to be

the golden age of painting. Roughly

spanning the 14th through the mid-17th

century.

In Italy artists took painting to a higher

level through the use of perspective, the

study of human anatomy and proportion,

and through their development of an

unprecedented refinement in drawing and

painting techniques.

Filipino painting as a whole can be

seen as an amalgamation of many

cultural influences, though it tends

to be more Western in its current

form with Eastern roots.

Early Filipino painting can be found

in red slip (clay mixed with water)

designs embellished on the ritual

pottery of the Philippines such as

the acclaimed Manunggul Jar.

Further evidences of painting are

manifested in the tattoo tradition of early

Filipinos, whom the Portuguese explorer

referred to as Pintados or the 'Painted

People' of the Visayas. Various designs

referencing flora and fauna with

heavenly bodies decorate their bodies in

various colored pigmentation

Filipinos began creating paintings in

the European tradition during the 17th-

century Spanish period. The earliest of these

paintings were Church frescoes, religious

imagery from Biblical sources, as well as

engravings, sculptures and lithographs

featuring Christian icons and European

nobility.

The Death of Cleopatra by Juan

Luna1881

Juan Luna Spoliarium

Antipolo by Fernando Amorsolo, depicting Filipinos

celebrating a town fiesta.

The Blood Compact by Juan Luna

Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas Al Populacho (The Christian

Virgins Being Exposed to the Populace) by Felix Ressureccion

Hidalgo 1884

La Barca de Aqueronte by Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo

1887

Self portrait by Félix Resurrección

Hidalgo

La Marina by Félix Resurrección Hidalgo

Fabian de la Rosa, A remembrance of the

Villa Borghese