Charcoal Drawings

The charcoal paintings date back to 23,000 BCE when early humans used burnt sticks to sketch pictures of animals and figures on cave walls. Many cultures, from Native Australians to sub-Saharan African peoples, provide evidence of these types of paintings. Since charcoal could be quickly manipulated and cleaned away, it was the ideal medium for playing with shape and composition. It's one of the most adaptable mediums, and it can be found on several surfaces.

Artists invented procedures throughout the Renaissance that required a charcoal drawing to be ‘fixed,' so that it did not fall away with time. Charcoal drawings became famous as independent works of craft in the late nineteenth centennial, and many of these discoveries would include a significant number of charcoal drawings of people. Charcoal painting is still commonly used in nearly all art schools and is regarded as a coveted method.

Charcoal favors broad, and robust craftsmanship, with an emphasis on mass and movement rather than linear accuracy, due to the softness of its drawing edge. A considerable number of such sketches have survived, including works by Albrecht Dürer, Paulus Potter, and several 16th and 17th-century Italian artists. During the nineteenth and twentieth centennial, as well as into the twenty-first, charcoal drawings were manufactured. Many notable examples can be discovered in the works of French artists like Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, along with German artists Ernst Barlach and Käthe Kollwitz in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centennial.

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