![]() ![]() Finally in the West the idea of " art for art's sake" began to find expression in the work of the Romantic painters like Francisco de Goya, John Constable, and J. Pettakere Cave are more than 44,000 years old, Maros, South Sulawesi, Indonesia 3.6.17 Contemporary painting into the 21st century.3.6.15 Hard-edge painting, minimalism, postminimalism, monochrome painting.3.6.14 Washington Color School, Shaped Canvas, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical Abstraction.3.6.13 New abstraction from the 1950s through the 1980s.3.6.12 Art brut, New Realism, Bay Area Figurative Movement, neo-Dada, photorealism.3.6.11 Figurative, landscape, still-Life, seascape, and Realism.3.6 20th-century modern and contemporary.3.5 19th century: Neo-classicism, History painting, Romanticism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism.The 19th century saw the rise of the commercial art gallery, which provided patronage in the 20th century. The oldest known paintings are approximately 40,000 years old, found in both the Franco-Cantabrian region in western Europe, and in the caves in the district of Maros ( Sulawesi, Indonesia). The oldest type of cave paintings are hand stencils and simple geometric shapes the oldest undisputed examples of figurative cave paintings are somewhat younger, close to 35,000 years old. In November 2018, scientists reported the discovery of the then-oldest known figurative art painting, over 40,000 (perhaps as old as 52,000) years old, of an unknown animal, in the cave of Lubang Jeriji Saléh on the Indonesian island of Borneo ( Kalimantan). In December 2019, however, figurative cave paintings depicting pig hunting in the Maros-Pangkep karst in Sulawesi were estimated to be even older, at least 43,900 years old. ![]() The finding was noted to be "the oldest pictorial record of storytelling and the earliest figurative artwork in the world". And more recently, in 2021, cave art of a pig found in an Indonesian island, and dated to over 45,500 years, has been reported. There are examples of cave paintings all over the world-in Indonesia, France, India, Spain, Southern Africa, China, Australia etc. Various conjectures have been made as to the meaning these paintings had to the people that made them. Prehistoric artists may have painted animals to "catch" their soul or spirit in order to hunt them more easily or the paintings may represent an animistic vision and homage to surrounding nature. They may be the result of a basic need of expression that is innate to human beings, or they could have been for the transmission of practical information. Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia c.
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