Craft to Career: Designing With Graphic Arts: DIY Visual Projects

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HISTORY OF GRAPHIC ARTS people to print many copies of the same text Graphic art is one of the oldest art forms Its history can be traced back to cave paintings from 45,000 years ago Writing developed in the Middle East around 3000 BCE At first people wrote on slabs of clay Later people wrote on rolls of papyrus and animal skins Paper was developed in China in 105 CE By 600 the Chinese were using woodblock printing Art could be shared by making many prints of the same design Movable type was developed by Chinese artist Bi Sheng in the 1040s This involves arranging wooden or clay blocks carved with letters and symbols The blocks are held together and inked for printing on paper This allowed 8 Around 1450 German printer Johannes Gutenberg invented a new type of printing press This machine used metal instead of wood blocks for letters This new printing press could print more copies of texts more quickly and for a lower cost During the Industrial Revolution lithography and photography were invented These art forms made art more affordable People didn't have to be rich to buy art In the 1900s the computer introduced a whole new way to create graphic art Today different forms of graphic arts are used for a variety of purposes PUE