1/28/2004 slide 5
The Power of a Line
•“Every endeavor of the human mind, including the most abstract ones such as poetry and philosophy, has made use of drawings…This has been true in every culture throughout time.”
[Massironi 2001 p.2]
[Massironi 2001 p.2]
•Cave art ~30,000BC
•First writing ~3000BC
•Basic components of drawing unchanged for thousands of year
–Viewpoint (location and distance) [not always a factor]
–Style (from projection/perspective to abstraction)
SUMERIA,
3,200 B.C. This Mesopotamian culture is generally thought to be the first culture to produce written texts. In the example above the Sumerians used a stylus and wet clay to record the ingredients for beer. [cuneiform
writing]
http://www.english.uga.edu/~hypertxt/040699sci-early-writing.html