How was the history of art started ?

Art was made on cave walls with tools to help.
Most
  of the art was animals. Caveman do this for fun and to do stuff.

Who made the first painting?

Cavemen were the first people   to make 
paintings.
 The did their paintings on
cave walls, they used rich colors for  their paintings. They used theses colors
light yellow to deep orange . most  of their paintings were wild
life.

How are they made?

They were made by feelings and print stuff to have
fun.

REFERENCES

http://www.all-art.org/... 
http://ssaul.hubpages.com/hub/WHEN-WAS-THE-FIRST-PAINTING-MADE
 http://www.clickinks.com/all-about-cave-paintings.html