From the course: Drawing Foundations: Figure
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Tracing the history of figure drawing
From the course: Drawing Foundations: Figure
Tracing the history of figure drawing
- Tracing a brief history of figure drawing will allow us to put our practice into context. The earliest known drawings were found on the walls of caves in France and Spain dating 15,000 years ago. Early drawings were scratched, carved, or painted on surfaces using primitive tools. In France, the earliest drawing of a man is a prone, stick-like figure in the caves at Lascaux. On the other side of the world, human forms first appeared in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, as Aboriginal stick figures up to six feet high. They survived today due to the fact that they were etched into rock. Ancient Egyptians decorated the walls of their temples and tombs with humans enacting scenes of daily life. These drawings had a flat, linear style. Ancient Greeks decorated pottery vases showing the Greeks' ability to draw graceful figures and decorative lines. Let's fast forward to the early Renaissance where figure drawing was really born. Artists went to great lengths to study human…
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