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| PAINTING taken literally is the practice of applying colour to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas, wood, glass, or other. 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.
Popular painting styles
'Style' is used in two senses: It can refer to the distinctive visual elements, techniques and methods that typify an individual artist's work. It can also refer to the movement or school that an artist is associated with. This can stem from an actual group that the artist was consciously involved with or it can be a category in which art historians have placed the painter. The word 'style' in the latter sense has fallen out of favour in academic discussions about contemporary painting, though it continues to be used in popular contexts.
Painting styles :Abstract , Abstract expressionism , Post-Abstract Expressionism , Art Brut , Baroque , Color Field , Constructivism , Contemporary Art , Cubism , Expressionism , Fauvism , Folk , Graffiti , Hard-edge , Impressionism , Lyrical Abstraction , Mannerism , Minimalism , Modernism , Naive art , Neo-classicism , pOp art , Orientalism , Orphism , Outsider , Painterly , Photorealism , Pointillism , Pop art , Postmodernism , Post-painterly Abstraction , Primitive , Realism , Romanticism , Romantic realism , Socialist realism , Stuckism , Surrealism , Tachism , Transpressionism ,
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