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Painting

Drawing, by comparison, is the process of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface.

Painting is also the utilitarian painting of objects and buildings. This is often done to provide a protective coating or for aesthetic reasons. One possible process for decorative painting of the walls of a room is found in Work breakdown structure.

More specifically this article is about the painting of a surface for artistic reasons, considered by many to be among the most important of the art forms.

Table of contents

1 History of Painting 2 Painting techniques 3 Paint mediums 4 Popular painting styles 5 Common painting idioms 6 List of painters 7 External links 8 See also

History of Painting

The oldest known paintings are at the Grotte Chauvet in France, dated at about 32,000 years old. They are engraved and painted using red ochre and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo and mammoth. There are examples of cave painting occurring all over the world.

Today, many of the world's most recognized works of art, such as the Mona Lisa, are paintings. There exists some slight controversy as to whether or not works of art produced in non-traditional ways, or with non-traditional materials, can properly be called paintings. In a general sense artists using sound, light, fireworks, ink-jet pigment, computer monitor pixels and even pastel or pencil all have the same intentions as the more expected water, oil, gouache or egg tempera painters. The resulting work of art is often referred to as a painting.

You can read more about the Origin of Art

Painting techniques

Painting techniques include:

• Impasto
• Wash, drip
• Glaze
• painting with fingers, handprint or the like
• Encaustic
• Mural and Fresco its best known variant
• Grisaille
• scumble and stipple
• Sfumato
• Sumi-e
• Collage
• Panel painting
• Spray painting (Graffiti)
• New materials (painting) and
• computer painting.

The medium is the vehicle that the pigment is suspended or embedded in. Almost all drawing mediums can be used in painting as well.

Examples include:

• Oil painting, including the newer water-miscible oils
• Heat-set oils
• Acrylic paint
• Blacklight paint
• Fingerpaint
• Gouache
• Ink
• Pastel, including dry pastels, oil pastels, and pastel pencils
• Tempera
• Encaustic painting (wax)
• Watercolor painting

Painting styles can be characterized by the method of application (loose or tight) or by referring to the art movement that most closely matches the predominant characteristics that the painting expresses. They include:

• Realism
• Impressionism
• Pointillism
• Naive art
• Cubism
• Modernism
• Abstract
• Postmodernism
• Avant Garde
• Constructivism
• Hard-edge
• Graffiti

• Allegory
• Bodegon
• Botanical
• Fantasy
• Figure painting
• Illustration
• Industrial
• Landscape
• Naturalist
• Portrait
• Science Fiction
• Still Life
• Surrealism
• War

List of painters

Here is a growing list of painters too big for this page.

Shortcuts to highly popular painters:

• Paul Cézanne, (1839-1906), French artist
• Salvador Dalí, (1904-1989), Catalan artist
• Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, (1475-1564), Italian sculptor and painter
• Amedeo Modigliani, (1884-1920), Italian sculptor and painter
• Claude Monet, (1840-1926), French impressionist painter
• Pablo Picasso, (1881-1973), Spanish cubist artist
• Jackson Pollock, (1912-1956), US abstract expressionist painter
• Rembrandt, (1606-1669), Dutch painter
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (1841-1919), French impressionist painter
• Peter Paul Rubens, (1577-1640), Belgian painter
• Leonardo da Vinci, (1452-1519), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor

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• Contemporary paintings from East Africa
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