The word image is derived from Old High German "bildi" and had originally the meaning of miracles and portents. Today, you can not just pictures on the word "image to reduce." Images can a painting, a drawing, a science (Image Science and bildenede art), a section in the theater arts, a photograph, internal representation (psychology), an object (in mathematics) and be infinitely many other things. The first known pictures we are probably feeling as such probably cave paintings, made by Neanderthals, adorn countless caves. This world-famous images have been no fantasy objects, but in line near future by this man held his impressions. Striking use of color and object shape were the painted figures. This natural urge of the people shall retain the impressions be prompted fundamental changes over the millennia. What began as "pictures" in the cave has been developing as mankind itself have operated from the primitive art of our ancestors, have to date naturalism Impressionmus, Cézannism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Realism Suprematism and developed out.

Many people have images over the millennia shaped, defined and expanded the concept. Probably the most famous people, the word is most artists. Images should not only be fun, remember and improve, but also criticize it. The best known of his profession is Leonardo da Vinci. This person coined pictures of his time like no other. In public, da Vinci sketched and painted countless of people Florence, but he was not only limited to the fine arts, but is also interested in engineering and mathematics. Many are familiar with the blueprints of the aircraft, the Leonardo da Vinci draws, but many do not know the images of the elements of a tank car, which is similar to today's tanks, very strong, and an automobile. But outside of every public man made this research were revolutionary. He went to cemeteries dug up people who had died recently, and the setzierte and held its results, as one might imagine, firmly in sketches and paintings. And this impresses at a time when the Vatican Italy with religious ideas. A true revolutionary.

Thousands of years ago the Neanderthals had the term 'picture' is defined differently than man today. Images are aesthetic and mechanical structures that are not only real, but also can be mentally present. Our ancestors have produced static images on walls, artists of modern times, these partially transformed into three-dimensional object. The images of the future will be like as a consistency to move '', which sees the movement as nounce convey emotions better. Perhaps it will also play back all digital and only replace the monitors our screens. Time will show it.

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