Renowned German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel has written that Painting is one of the three “romantic” arts along with poetry and music, for its symbolic and highly intellectual purpose. The literal sense of painting is that it’s the depiction of colors over a surface with a certain theme. The surface can be of a paper, a wood, glass or the other. Painting is also said to be a drawing or a composition based on imagination or reality.
Painting is one of the most primitive arts. The geometric figures and colored pictures of animals inside the caves of Paleolithic age i.e. 5000 BC are the oldest testimonies of human painting. Caves of Bhimbetka can be referred to this fact. Similar cave paintings have been found in France, Spain, Portugal, China, and Australia etc.
In little advanced age when painting as an art had got the recognition, a large portion of painting was done on spiritual motifs and ideas. This was done with the depiction of mythological figures and biblical teachings. The surface of pottery was also a medium for painting for a long period. These developments coincided with the evolution of new ideas about color and other accessories like brushes and media. When the roots of painting as an art got entrenched properly some painters, theoreticians, writers and scientists including Goethe, Kandinsky, Newton, wrote their own color theories.
During Middle Ages Byzantine art flourished. Icon usually of religious significance is the main form of painting in Byzantine art. In this period Cimabue and Giotto were the great exponents painting. Besides, illustration or the illuminated manuscript was also an important feature of painting during the middle ages. In India's perspective Mughal emperors were the most accomplished patrons of painting in the medieval period. Miniature paintings were the most exquisite style of painting adopted these days. Humayun, Akbar, jahangir and Shahjahan were monarchs who provided their full support for the propagation of this art.
This was followed by Renaissance, which is called Golden age of Painting by many intellectuals. This period witnessed the rise of greatest painters ever like Paolo Uccello, Piero della Francesca, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raphael and Titian.After this period several art movemments arose like Iressionism, Post-impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism and Dadaism.They all caried certain distinct specialities.
Apart from these developments, other things like paintings also got a major change. There are various painting techniques in use like Impasto, Glaze,Grissaille, New-Materials (painting), Pointillism, Scummble, Sfunato, grattage etc.Along with them there grew a number of Popular painting styles.Some of them are: Abstract, Abstract-expressionism, Art Brut, Baroque,Color Field, Constructivism, Comtemporary Art, Cubism,Expressionism, Fauvism, Folk, Graffiti, Mannerism, Minimalism, Modernism, Neo-Classicism, Realism, Romanticism, Post-Modernism, Tachism, Structurism and many more.
There has been an upsurge in the invention of different media.These media gave distinction to paintings from each other.There could be various media like acrylic, encoustic, fresco, ink, oil, pastel, oil pastel, spray paint,tempere, water coulour etc.
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A sculpture can be carved, chiseled, modeled, caste and constructed on various materials. And accordingly they can be called stone sculpture, World has seen so many painters who scaled the zenith of the perfecion of this art and subsequently became immortal. And now in this modern age painting has evolved to be a fascinating career option. Now paintings of famous painters like M.F. Husssain and Tyab Mehta are fetching millions.Some accomplished modern Indian painters are Hemen Majoomadar, Atul Bose,Bikash Bhattacharjee Ganesh Pyne, Prasannajit Roy and Sanjay Bhattacharya.
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