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In this presentation you will be learning about art and the history of it. Art was invented in 1866, and since we have used it.

About

History of Art

Art was created about 100,000 years ago. The earliest art comes from Africa in stone carvings. Around 3,000 B.C, people learned how to work with metals and began to create small pieces of art from bronze often small statuettes.

This was the era when people in Greece and India began to create art and in Egypt sculptors were creating large, lifelike stone statues which were painted realistically and were life-size. During the Dark Age around 1,100 BC in East Asia and the

Mediterranean Sea led to most people being unable to afford to buy art. Artists stopped creating their pieces for several hundred years.

Elements of Art

The elements of art are important for several reasons. First, and most importantly, a person can't create art without utilizing at least a few of them.

No elements, no art—end of story. A line is a continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point it may be flat (pencil line) or three-dimensional (a rod, groove, ridge, etc.) Shape is an enclosed space defined by a line or by contrast to its surroundings.

A form is a three-dimensional object: a defined volume of space. Space is the visible spectrum of radiation reflected from an object. Value is how light or dark an object or element is, independent of its color.Texture is the tactile sensation or feel of a surface (rough, smooth, spiky, etc.) or how something appears to feel.

Elements of Art

Fun Facts #1

Fun Facts #1

1. Did you know that art was an olympic event.

2. Did you know Learning art correlates strongly with your achievements in math and reading.

3. Did you know Creating a website or designing a home requires mastering skills which are developed through arts education.

4. Did you know Roman statues were made with detachable heads so that one head could be removed and replaced by another.

Fun Facts #2

5. Did you know Picasso could draw before he could walk, and his first word was the Spanish word for pencil.

6. Did you know Leonardo da Vinci was a vegetarian and animal rights activist.

7. Did you know The first artists used ashes from fire, red clay or natural pigments from plants for paint.

8. Did you knowArtists can also use video, photographs, paper, metal, plastic or even recycled materials in their art.