subject: Painting Art [print this page] In the form of art known as painting, a paint, color or pigment is applied to a surface with the help of a brush. The painting surfaces usually are walls, paper, canvas, wood, clay or even concrete. Different things like clay and sand etc are also used to incorporate paintings.
It is said that paintings are used by anyone to convey his expressions. Paintings can depict someone's emotions, express his words or can be based on politics, independent of the fact that it's a representational painting or naturalistic painting.
Painting took a significant place in Eastern art along with Western art as a way of expressing spiritual ideas. The structure of painting depends upon one's perception and way of representing the intensity in mind. The ideology of a successful painter is highly practical. As an example, a painter can consider any blue as a blue color including Paris blue, indigo, ultramarine and cobalt etc. Moreover, colors derive the actual meaning of a painting and make it a subjective one.
An artist aims to capture the emotions and expressions through the medium of painting that is retained for a longer period as compared to music or dance where the most attractive moves disappear before they are understood. With various combinations of colors, textures, lines and tones, paintings act as a medium to convey something that is unspoken with the help of a brush.
In the modern era, artists have begun to include pieces of work, like collage, in the paintings extension which, otherwise, is not considered to be a painting in real sense. The development of first photograph in 1829 resulted in loss of painting's actual historic purpose which was to show the worldly observations. So, it can be concluded that modern changes in the art has resulted in the loss of its old and historic values.
