Ancient Cave Paintings. Cave paintings are paintings found on cave walls and ceilings, and especially refer to those of prehistoric origin. The earliest such art in Europe dates back to the Aurignacian period, approximately 40,000 years ago, and is found in the El Castillo cave in Cantabria, Spain.he exact purpose of the paleolithic cave paintings is not known. Evidence suggests that they were not merely decorations of living areas, since the caves in which they have been found do not have signs of ongoing habitation. They are also often located in areas of caves that are not easily accessible.
View the main page for this artwork. The term âaction paintingâ was coined by Harold Rosenberg in his groundbreaking article The American Action Painters published in ARTnews in December 1952. Rosenberg was referring to artists such as Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock. 1  Look at action painting in Tateâs collection.
James Harvey (artist) James Harvey (1929 â July 15, 1965) was an American commercial and fine artist who was best known as the designer of the Brillo Pad box made famous by pop artist Andy Warhol in 1964 at his Stable Gallery Show. During his successful career as a commercial artist, Harvey did work for major clients such as Pepsodent, Brillo, Philip Morris and others. Also known as an abstract expressionist painter, he died in 1965. James Harvey came from a blue-collar, immigrant family. Harvey was born in 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His family moved to Detroit before he was a year old. Harvey studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. He later returned to Detroit, where he designed window displays for retail giant J. L. Hudson. Finally he moved to New York to break into the art world. Harvey secured a position in the studio of Egmont Arens, an industrial and packaging designer who helped usher in the âstreamlinedâ style before World War II.