Beschreibung

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or othermedium[1] to a surface (support base). The medium is commonlyapplied to the base with a brush but other implements, such asknives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the termpainting describes both the act and the result of the action.However, painting is also used outside of art as a common tradeamong craftsmen and builders. Paintings may have for their supportsuch surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay,leaf, copper or concrete, and may incorporate multiple othermaterials including sand, clay, paper, gold leaf as well asobjects. Painting is a mode of creative expression, and the formsare numerous. Drawing, composition or abstraction and otheraesthetics may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptualintention of the practitioner. Paintings can be naturalistic andrepresentational (as in a still life or landscape painting),photographic, abstract, be loaded with narrative content,symbolism, emotion or be political in nature. A portion of thehistory of painting in both Eastern and Western art is dominated byspiritual motifs and ideas; examples of this kind of painting rangefrom artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery to Biblicalscenes rendered on the interior walls and ceiling of The SistineChapel, to scenes from the life of Buddha or other images ofeastern religious origin.