Invention of Writing
The
ability to write changed human communication and art in ways never imagined.
With writing capabilities, humans could now record events in a variety of
ways. Some of the earliest cave
paintings from 35,000 to 45,000 B.C.E. created a visual communication that
could be painted on rocks and engraved. Many of these early designs were simple
and used mainly for survival and ritualistic purposes. The earliest writing
occurred in Mesopotamia toward the end of the fourth millennium B.C.E. This now
brought visual communication from cave painting, to more refined techniques,
which were recorded, on tablets.
These tablets were made of clay mud, and scratched with a wooden
stylus. As time progressed,
scribes were able to make their writing more legible by pushing the stylus into
the clay rather than dragging it through.
The
Egyptians created their own complex system to communicate based off of
pictographs. These images of animals and people could be inscribed in ivory or
stone. As time progressed,
papyrus, a paper like substance, could be used to write on. This helped evolve the form of hieroglyphs
into simpler and easier to create symbols. The early Egyptian manuscripts used both words and pictures
to communicate. Their culture forever changed the way human writing and visual
communication progressed.
The
invention of drawing and writing certainly allowed for the creation of graphic arts. Though
some may think of graphic arts as only artistic images, graphic arts are any
visual illustration. Whether it is early writing forms or intricate paintings,
graphic art and design has no boundaries.
Early Hieroglyphics
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