Art is a product of a human mind in a visual form to express their ideas and emotions .art includes the creation of image in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography. But usually are not in painting, also in music, theater, film, dance and literature. Or in the other words it was a manifestation of human creativity.
Art, in the first period of history, began with the invention of writing, founded by the great civilization of Egypt and Mesopotamia. In this period appear the first great cities in the main big rivers: Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, Indus and yellow river. One of the great advances of this period was writing, generated primarily by the need to keep records of economical and commercial nature. The first writing code was the cuneiform script, which emerged in Mesopotamia 3500 BCE, written on clay tablets. It was based on pictographic and ideographic elements, while later Sumerians developed syllables for writing, reflecting the phonology and syntax of the Sumerian language. In Egypt hieroglyphic writing was developed, with the first sample being the Narmer palette (3100 BCE). The Hebrew language was on the first language to utilized the method of writing with an alphabet, which relates a unique symbol for each phoneme, the Greek and the Latin alphabet derive from it.
Prehistory
The first tangible artifact was discovered in 1908 in Austria. It was a human art found from the Stone Age period. During the Paleolithic (25 000-8000 BCE), man practiced hunting and living in cave where painting are developed. But not only in Africa but also in western Mediterranean, central and Eastern Europe, Siberia and India where the other human wood forms or bone tools are present. They used iron oxide to have a paint of red, manganese oxide for black and clay for ochre.
Neolithic period was from 8000 BCE in the near east. This period was profound change for the ancient man, who became sedentary and engaged in agriculture and animal