What is the earliest known work of art?

Answer 1

The earliest known Western paintings were executed deep within caves of southern Europe during the Paleolithic period, some 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. The early development of painting continued in the Mediterranean littoral. A

The paintings still preserved on the walls of caves in Spain and southern France portray with amazing accuracy bison, horses, and deer. These representations were painted in bright colors composed of various minerals ground into powders and mixed with animal fat, egg whites, plant juices, fish glue, or even blood and applied with brushes made of twigs and reeds, or blown on. The pictures may have been part of a magic ritual, although their exact nature is unclear. In a cave painting at Lascaux, France, for example, a man is depicted among the animals, and several dark dots are included; the purpose of the design remains obscure, but shows the cave dwellers' ability to record their thoughts with images, signs, and symbols. See Paleolithic Art.

Answer 2

art has been around forever but in all of man kind the first person to make art was not human. it was god and his masterpiece is all around you for when he created the world that was art. when he created you and me that was art. everything and everyone is his art and that has been around longer than time itself.

Answer:

The earliest African cave paintings are found in Namibia. The estimated age of the images date from approximately 23,000 - 25,000 BCE. The earliest known European cave paintings date to Aurignacian, some 32,000 years ago. In both cases the artist(s) are unknown.

Scientists feel there have been both paintings and portable art (carvings, ornaments) since the Upper Palaeolithic era some 40,000 years ago.

Answer 3

The earliest form of artwork was not in murals but in rock carvings, or petroglyphs. These have been dated to more than 200,000 years old.

The oldest form of this can be found in every continent: cupules, or, small half-sphere holes pounded into flat rock in rough shapes. It is yet to be determined what kind of cultural or social meaning these had.

Answer 4

The earliest work of art was actually discovered just recently. The work of art is a painting that was discovered in a cave in Spain and is roughly 42,000 years old.

Answer 5

Art of early humans can show their methods of creating art as well as the environment and society of their time via portraits of things such as scenery.

Answer 6

the first drawings in the world were in the stone age era...where those people stated to draw figures of the animals they hunted down, using blood of animals and their skin(animal's skin)...