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When the man began to draw,rupestrian paintings, Egyptian and Greek drawings. The origins of technical drawing.
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History of drawing
The
human being has always felt the need to represent all that surrounds him,
finding in drawing, the most interesting means to carry out this desire.
The first drawings goes back to the Superior Paleolithic , 35.000 years
ago, when the Homo sapiens represented on the cave surfaces of the caves
or on the skin of the coats, animals that he hunted. An example of this
artistic manifestation can be found in the cave paintings of the caves
of Altamira, in Cantabria (Spain).
Later, the Egyptians knew how to take profit of this art to decorate the
most imposing constructions in the history; the pyramids. It had passed
thousands of years and the drawing had evolved substantially. From the single-coloured
and static composition of the prehistory, a new stride had been made to
the balance, thoroughness and coloring of the theological representations
in temples and sanctuaries. There was a need to detail the figure of gods
to thank them the splendor of the Egyptian empire
It was necessary to advance to the sixth century BC to find in the Greeks the maximum representatives of the balance in drawing. Worried to center in the human candid expression, they denude it from any ostentation or supernatural connotation, they are able to achieve their target and they obtain what was considered to be the harmonic balance.
The
Romans, 500 years later, contributed to the diversity it was lacking . And
army and an discipline was required to maintain an empire on such an extensive
territory in order to subdue so many diverse cultures under the same authority.
That facilitated, in certain part, the abandonment of the artistic and ornamental
stuff to come closer to a more practical and more useful doctrine for that
time; Solid constructions were necessary to maintain the authority from
the continuous attacks of the invaders. They obtained in the drawing the
means to reflect what the useful constructions needed to be . The first
maps arose and with them the architecture was born. The technical drawing
required a bigger technique and mathematical knowledge about what had been
forged until that moment.