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Friday, March 14, 2008

Painting

Painting taken factually is the practice of applying color balanced in a vehicle and a binding agent to a surface such as paper, canvas, wood panel or a wall. On the other hand, when used in an inspired sense it means the use of this activity in combination with drawing, composition and extra artistic considerations in order to manifest the expressive and conceptual meaning of the practitioner. Painting is also used to state sacred motifs and ideas.

Colour is the essence of painting as noise is of music. Colour is highly subjective, but has apparent emotional effects, although these can differ from one civilization to the next. Black is associated with grief in the West, but elsewhere white may be. Some painters, theoreticians, writers and scientists, including Goethe, Kandinsky, Newton, have written their own colour theory. Furthermore the use of language is only a generalisation for a colour equivalent. The word red, for example, can cover a wide range of variations on the unadulterated red of the spectrum. There is not a formalised register of different colours in the way that there is conformity on unusual notes in music, such as C or C#, although the Pantone system is widely used in the printing.

Some modern painters incorporate unusual materials such as sand, cement, straw or wood for their texture. Modern and contemporary art has moved away from the historic value of craft in favour of thought; this has led some to say that painting, as a serious art form, is dead, although this has not deterred the greater part of artists from continuing to practice it either as whole or part of their shirt.

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