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Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium[1] to a surface (support base) The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used In art, the term Painting describes both the act and the result of the action However, Painting is also used outside of art as a common trade among craftsmen and builders Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay, leaf, copper or concrete, and may incorporate multiple other materials including sand, clay, paper, gold leaf as well as objectsPainting is a mode of expression and the forms are numerous Drawing, composition or abstraction and other aesthetics may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner 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 natureA portion of the history of Painting in both Eastern and Western art is dominated by spiritual motifs and ideas; examples 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 scenes from the life of Buddha or other images of eastern religious originWhat enables Painting is the perception and representation of intensity Every point in space has different intensity, which can be represented in Painting by black and white and all the gray shades between In practice, painters can articulate shapes by juxtaposing surfaces of different intensity; by using just color (of the same intensity) one can only represent symbolic shapes Thus, the basic means of Painting are distinct from ideological means, such as geometrical figures, various points of view and organization (perspective), and symbols For example, a painter perceives that a particular white wall has different intensity at each point, due to shades and reflections from nearby objects, but ideally, a white wall is still a white wall in pitch darkness In technical drawing, thickness of line is also ideal, demarcating ideal outlines of an object within a perceptual frame different from the one used by paintersColor and tone are the essence of Painting as pitch and rhythm are of music Color is highly subjective, but has observable psychological effects, although these can differ from one culture to the next Black is associated with mourning in the West, but in the East, white is Some painters, theoreticians, writers and scientists, including Goethe, Kandinsky, and Newton, have written their own color theory Moreover the use of language is only a generalization for a color equivalent The word "red", for example, can cover a wide range of variations on the pure red of the visible spectrum of light There is not a formalized register of different colors in the way that there is agreement on different notes in music, such as C or C in music For a painter, color is not simply divided into basic and derived (complementary or mixed) colors (like red, blue, green, brown, etc)Painters deal practically with pigments, so "blue" for a painter can be any of the blues: phtalocyan, Paris blue, indigo, cobalt, ultramarine, and so on Psychological, symbolical meanings of color are not strictly speaking means of Painting Colors only add to the potential, derived context of meanings, and because of this the perception of a Painting is highly subjective The analogy with music is quite clearsound in music (like "C") is analogous to light in Painting, "shades" to dynamics, and coloration is to Painting as specific timbre of musical instruments to musicthough these do not necessarily form a melody, but can add different contexts to itModern artists have extended the practice of Painting considerably to include, for example, collage, which began with Cubism and is not Painting in the strict sense Some modern painters incorporate different materials such as sand, cement, straw or wood for their texture Examples of this are the works of Jean Dubuffet and Anselm Kiefer There is a growing community of artists who use computers to paint color onto a digital canvas using programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, and many others These images can be printed onto traditional canvas if requiredRhythm is important in Painting as well as in music If one defines rhythm as "a pause incorporated into a sequence", then there can be rhythm in Paintings These pauses allow creative force to intervene and add new creationsform, melody, coloration

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