The History of Graphic

The History of Graphic

Graphic art, or graphics (from Greek. "grafo" – drawing) is one of the types of fine art, including drawing and works based on the art of drawing, but having their own visual means and expressive capabilities.

First of all, graphics is an art based on drawing, color is not the main thing in graphics, as, for example, in painting.

Graphics are the most ancient of all fine arts. The first graphic images appeared at the earliest stages of the development of human society – in the Neolithic era and in the Bronze Age. Even before the ancient man turned to experiments in sculpture and painting, he created the first drawings that marked the beginning of the art of graphics. These images that have come down to us are usually scratched on rocks, on cave walls, on bone plates.

For a long time, graphic images had almost no independent meaning and were the decoration of certain objects. With the advent of writing, graphics became more widely used in handwritten books, parchments, letters for decoration and explanation of the text. And the very creation of fonts is a great art.

Interestingly, until the end of the XIX century, drawing did not belong to graphic art — it was considered only a preparatory material for painting (that is, they narrowed the concept to sketches and sketches). Only in the XX century, the term also covered the work of creating illustrations, cartoons, drawings. Well, when computer graphics appeared, and it was singled out as a separate subspecies.

Moldabayev Nurbek (AD 21-3)

Almaty, 2023