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Painting
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.
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