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From Cave To Contemporary Art

From Cave to Contemporary Art

Art is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination.

There are countless forms of art. Here are some different forms of art:

  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Literature
  • Architecture
  • Music
  • Theater

Art is old. The history of art focuses on the objects made by humans with spiritual, narrative, and symbolic meaning. The history of art is often told as chronology of masterpieces created during each civilization. People used to draw on walls using red ochre, and the Neanderthals are known as the first humans who used red ochre on a wall more than 65,000 years ago.

Drawing on a cave wall with red ochre

Contemporary art is the art of today 21st century. The term contemporary art refers to painting, sculpture, photography, installation, performance and videoart.

Believe it or not, graffiti too is an art genre which means drawing and painting on walls .

There are famous artists that created famous paintings in history.

Leonardo Da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, engineer, scientist, theorist sculptor and architect.

He is known for his art called Mona Lisa . He worked on it for 4 years but because he died he couldn’t finished. The Mona Lisa painting now is in the Louvre Museum since 1797 and its worth million of dollars.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris

Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch painter who became one of the most famous and Influential figures in Western art history. The Starry Night is one of his famous and beautiful paintings.

Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night

 My cousin is an art student at the Balkan University in Skopje. You will get to know her more in this short interview I made with her.

 

  • How old were you when you started drawing?
    • When I started drawing I was about 4 years old, I scribbled everywhere any piece of paper I could find even on walls.

 

  • What do you like to draw?
    • I mostly paint nature and abstract. I tried to pick one style but both of them seemed pretty comforting to me so I paint both.

 

  • What inspired you to start drawing?
    • I would say everything around me even my family and friends who supported me since a young age. But mostly I would say my feelings through people and moment.

People relax through art, show their talent and express their feelings. I hope this article will inspire some young artists to explore their talents further, and maybe create masterpieces like the great artists mentioned above.

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