Base of Art Through the Ages

Art was one of the earliest manifestation of culture, this is because it fulfils human kinds need to interpret everything around them including their world and spiritual beliefs. Paleolithic art can be found to date back over thirty thousand years. The first discovery of this type of art was in Spain 1879. They were cave paintings that depicted men, women and, animals, these types of works were most often found deep in caves were no natural …showed first 75 words of 1148 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1148 total…Pop art offered its viewers something that they could understand. Pop addressed the contemporary age and drew it image from items of local popular culture. Artists used the techniques already being used in commercial advertising, like billboard murals and commercial silk screens. Op art relied on visual tricks and illusions for effect, the movement saw the elimination of free and loose brush work to make way for the intricate and hard-edge technique that was op.