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History of painting

The oldest known paintings are claimed in the Grotte Chauvet in France, by some historians to about 32,000 years. They are engraved and painted with red ocher and black pigment and horses, rhinos, lions, buffalo, mammoth or humans often display the hunting. But the first evidence of the painting was discovered in two rock shelters of the Arnhem Land in northern Australia. In the lowest layer of the material on these pages is used, there are pieces of ocher estimated that 60,000 years. Archaeologists have also a fragment of rock paintings in a shelter of limestone has been in the Kimberley region of Northwest Australia, which is 40 000 years, has found. [1] There are examples of cave paintings in the world, in France, Spain, Portugal, China, Australia, India, etc.

In oil painting and watercolors Western cultures are the best known media, with rich and complex traditions in style and theme. In the East, and color ink historical predominant choice of media with equally rich traditions and complex.