World Painting
Among all art trends, painting is one of the most recognized and honourable all over the world. At the present moment, it's rather hard to give a concisely-worded definition of the term in question as the number of existing styles and directions within it is really impressive. Nevertheless, according to most of official interpretations painting is a way of laying paint or pigment on all possible kinds of the surface, including canvas, paper, glass, walls, clay and so on. Traditionally, a central object or a group of objects and correspondingly the central spot are considered to be the most essential idea of any picture. However, the beginning of the 20th century turned millennium-long theories upside down and gay way to numerous modern trends that are based on completely different conceptualizations. Nowadays, paintings may be decorated with any decorations and encrustations and even incorporated wit other materials, such as sand, clay or leaves.
In the same way, as any other art style expresses the author's world-view, the painting is a way of self-expression. A person may draw anything he is into and feels predisposed to not being limited by any boundaries, and the examiner for his creations is time. Paintings can be realistic or idealistic, collective or individual, naturalistic and representational. The most fundamental demand for any picture is that it must appropriate contents, a certain "challenge" to the audience that will make its "zest".
A natural fact is that the painting is different in different world regions. Actually, the painting being a constitutive part of the art varies from state to state in the general outline of the art "assemblage". If, for example, the Western civilization traditions have been developing from the Ancient Greece, there are several sources of South-Eastern traditions originating from China, Japan and India. The most usual plots of the Western painting are Biblical scenes, mythological heroes, wild nature, political and social conflicts. The South- and Far-Eastern painting is mostly concentrated on the scenes from the life of Buddha.
The nature of the painting of all times and nation is the interweaving between colour and objects a painter puts on the surface. In the same way, as pitch and rhythm are the main components of the music and word of the literature, color and tone are the essence of painting. Before a painter starts his work, he has to design a plan in his mind and distribute the space on the surface beforehand. The staple thing is to resolve what or who will be in central place (expressing the main idea) and who will be on the background. Then, a painter has to decide for himself in what way the boundaries of one object will cross the boundaries of another. These are the most relevant things every painter is supposed to know and besides he needs to be well aware of geometry, mathematics and physiology.