Historically, the art of painting is strongly associated with the image. Prehistoric relics show that since thousands of years ago, human ancestors have begun drawing on cave walls to portray important parts of life. a painting or drawing can be made only by using simple materials such as charcoal, lime, or other materials. one of the well known prehistoric drawing techniques of cave people is by putting a hand on the cave wall, then spraying it with chewed foliage or colored minerals. the result is a multicolored hand copy on the cave walls that can still be seen today. This ease allows images (and subsequently paintings) to develop faster than other branches of art such as sculpture and ceramic art.
like drawings, most paintings are made on flat plane like wall, floor, paper, or canvas. In the education of modern art in Indonesia, this characteristic is also called dual-dimension (two dimensions, flat dimension) .