Painting

What is Painting?
y The art or process of applying paints to a surface

such as canvas, to make a picture or other artistic composition y The practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface. y One of the fine arts that depicts various intrinsic values of humanity through imaginative aggregation of lines and colors.

Elements of Painting
y Subject y The focus or subject of the painting. y It can be tangible or intangible. y Distance y The viewer will be able to take notice of and see things that he/she might have missed in the initial viewing of the painting. y Color y Use colors to convey feelings and moods within their painting. y Perspective y Makes a flat picture look 3-dimensional and have depth.

y Light y Light affects the color of the subject and objects in the painting look real and solid if the artist shows the way light falls on them. y Use of light and darkness also conveys particular moods in a painting. y Line and Shapes y Artists use various types of lines (diagonal, curved, vertical, and horizontal) and shapes to express ideas and feelings in their paintings. y Composition y Artists seriously plan how they will arrange elements like color, line and shapes in their paintings. y Symbols y Artists often include symbolic objects in their paintings. y A symbol can be defined as something which has a special meaning or a special message.

Mediums in Painting
y Oil y Uses oil, particularly linseed oil as pigment binder and drying agent. y Watercolor y The paints are made of pigments suspended in a water soluble vehicle. Acrylic y Fast drying paint containing pigment suspension in acrylic polymer emulsion and is water-resistant when dry. y Gouache y A type of paint consisting of pigment suspended in water. y The particles are larger, the ratio of pigment to water is much higher, and an additional, inert, white pigment such as chalk is also present.

Oil Painting Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci

Watercolor Young Hare Albrecht Drer

Gouache Self-portrait Friedrich Schwinge

y Acrylic y Uses fast drying paint containing pigment suspension in acrylic polymer emulsion. y Acrylic paints can be diluted with water, but become water-resistant when dry. y Tempera y A permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium such as egg yolk. y Fresco y Painting in pigment mixed with water on a thin layer of wet, fresh, lime mortar or plaster. y Ink y Done with a liquid that contains pigments and/or dyes and is used to color a surface to produce an image.

Acrylic Painting Fall Natalja Picugina

Tempera Painting Two Christians before the Judges Niccol Semitecolo

Fresco The Creation of Adam Michelangelo

Ink Painting Tree Xu Yinsen

y Encaustic y Involves using heated colored pigments are added.

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y Enamel y Painting a substrate, typically metal, with frit, a type of powdered glass. y Minerals called color oxides provide coloration. y Aerosol y A type of paint that comes in a sealed pressurized container and is released in a fine spray mist when depressing a valve button.

Encaustic Painting Parasol on the Beach

Enamel Painting loisonne

Aerosol Painting Mother and Baby Elephant in Space Brandon McConnell

School of Thoughts in Painting

y Realism y Is the art style most people regard as "real art", where the subject of the painting looks very much like it appears in real life. y Is a style that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see. y Impressionism y A school of painting that initially focused on work done, not in studios, but outdoors (en plein air). y Demonstrated that human beings do not see objects, but instead see light itself.

Realism Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet Gustave Courbet

Impressionism Impression, Sunrise Claude Monet

y Symbolism y In favor of spirituality, the imagination, and dreams. y Emphasized the free access to the artist's inner world, allowing liberation from nature as a model and from the boundaries of artistic conventions. y Expressionism y Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. y It ought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality. y Cubism y Objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted forminstead of depicting objects from one viewpoint. y The artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

Symbolism Wanderer above the Sea of Fog Caspar David Friedrich

Expressionism The Scream Edvard Munch

Cubism Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Pablo Picasso

y Mannerism y Encompasses a variety of approaches influenced by,

and reacting to, the restrained naturalism. y Orientalism

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y More widely used to refer to the works of the many 19th

century artists, who specialized in "Oriental" subjects, often drawing on their travels to North Africa and Western Asia.

y Minimalism y Set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts.

Mannerism Madonna of the Long Neck Parmigianino

Orientalism The Slave and The Lion Georges Rochegrosse

Minimalism Composition No. 10 (lines & shapes) Piet Mondrian

y Surrealism y Feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur (it does not follow). y Dadaism y Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. y Dadaism was to represent the opposite. Where art was concerned with aesthetics, Dadaism ignored them. y Fauvism y Characterized by seemingly wild brush work and strident colors, while their subject matter had a high degree of simplification and abstraction.

Surrealism The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali

Dadaism The Elephant Celebes Max Ernst

Fauvism Blue Nude Henri Matisse