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New page: '''Painting''', meant literally, is the practice of applying color to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer or concrete. However, when used in an artistic sense, ...
'''Painting''', meant literally, is the practice of applying color to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer or concrete. However, when used in an artistic sense, the term "painting" means the use of this activity in combination with [[drawing]], [[composition]] and other aesthetic considerations in order to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner.
Painting is used as a mode of representing, documenting and expressing all the varied intents and subjects that are as numerous as there are practitioners of the craft. Paintings can be [[naturalistic]] and [[representational]] (as in a still life or landscape painting), photographic, [[abstract]], be loaded with narrative content, [[symbolism]], emotion or be political in nature. A large portion of the history of painting is dominated by spiritual motifs and ideas; sites of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery to biblical scenes rendered on the interior walls and ceiling of [[The Sistine Chapel]] to depictions of the human body itself as a spiritual subject. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting]
Painting is used as a mode of representing, documenting and expressing all the varied intents and subjects that are as numerous as there are practitioners of the craft. Paintings can be [[naturalistic]] and [[representational]] (as in a still life or landscape painting), photographic, [[abstract]], be loaded with narrative content, [[symbolism]], emotion or be political in nature. A large portion of the history of painting is dominated by spiritual motifs and ideas; sites of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery to biblical scenes rendered on the interior walls and ceiling of [[The Sistine Chapel]] to depictions of the human body itself as a spiritual subject. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting]