DOL 8TH GRADEWeek 24

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• 1. Drawing are the basis for all other visual arts.

• 2. For example most paintings frescoes and sculpture begin as drawings or sketches.

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• 3. Drawing is an ancient art examples of ancient drawings include the cave drawings of Lascaux, france, and the huge pictures in the sand near Nazca, Peru.

• 4. Long before people began to make small drawings, one used sketchs as the basis for large murals.

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• 5. According to greek legend, the first drawings was simply tracings of shadows on the sand.

• 6. In Greek and roman antiquity, artists often drew outline sketches of there subjects.

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• 7. An important early improvement on outline sketches were the addition of lines to the outline.

• 8. Lines and shading can make drawings, which aren’t never three dimensional, look real solid.

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• 9. Another important inovation in the history of drawing were the development of perspective.

• 10. perspective is the technique of using converging lines to give the immpression of objects receding in the distance.