How To Define The Painting?
by Geng Mima painting artPainting means the practice of using paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). People usually apply the medium to the base with a brush. At the same time, other tools such as knives, airbrushes, sponges could be used too. In terms of art, the painting depicts not only the act, but also the result of the action. But, the painting can be also applied outside the art world as a common business between builders and craftsmen. The surfaces like wall, paper, wood, glass, clay, canvas, lacquer, copper and many other materials such as sand, gold leaf as well as real objects can equally support the paintings.
It can be said that the painting is a creation expression pattern
whose forms are various. The practitioner is able to use composition, drawing
or abstraction and other aesthetics to show the expressive and conceptual
thoughts. In a landscape painting, abstract painting, realistic painting, and
portrait or in a still life, the painting could be very naturalistic and
expressive with the narrative content, inner emotions or symbolic political
meanings in the real life.
Among the eastern and western art world,
spiritual ideas remain dominant a large portion of the painting history. Just
as pitch and rhythm are the essentials of music, the color and tone are exactly
the soul of painting. Although we consider the color quite subjective, the
color still can produce some psychological influences which are easily
observable and significantly different from one culture to the next one. From
the perspective of the western people, the black means mourning. While for the
oriental people, white has the above meaning. A painter could not roughly
divide all the colors into the basic and derived colors such as red, yellow,
blue, gray, etc. Therefore many painters and artist have written their own color
theories. They wish to make colors more generalized and clearly defined.
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