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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;

Colour is highly subjective, but it is connected with psychological associations every person has in his mind. In other words, everyone of us has his own associations with this or that colour and as every colour has a wide range of variations (pigments), painters has a tremendous set of tinctures he is free to apply to;

Abstractionism

According to its denomination, Abstractionism is a very special form of art. It uses a visual language of colour, form and line which create a very specific combination that represents the object that doesn't exist in reality. Through the 19th century, the Western Art was limited to describing things in their absolutely logical form reproducing real things through self-expression. The beginning of the 20th century demonstrated absolutely different variants of displaying objects. At first, it was confirmed that art (and painting in particular) could describe something that did not exist.

The word 'abstract' itself stands for unreal or 'something that is out of reality'. In this way, it may be compared with the Renaissance, Romanticism and Impressionism. However, all these art styles preserved at least the slightest connection with reality. Abstractionism meant complete departure from reality.

It supports complete freedom in art meaning complete freedom of plots, colours and painting surfaces, for example. It is total abstraction (escape) from problems of the surrounding world. It tends to be divided into geometric and figurative abstractionism among which the former does with completely unnatural geometric figures on the surface and the latter emphasizes the total nature of Abstractionism.

Almost every European country has its Abstractionists, but, for instance, Russia has two most prominent painters-abstractionists who were globally acknowledged. They are Kazimir Malevich ("Black Square", 1915) and Wassily Kandinsky ("On white 2", 1923). Malevich's "Black Square" still has a shocking effect on the public.

Among French Abstractionist there are Seurat, Andre Derain, Raoul Dufy, Maurice de Vlaminck and many, many others.

In general, Abstractionism appears to be one of numerous art styles that were born at the beginning of the 20th century. That time was a real boom for painting.

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Painting existed in the most primitive society satisfying its most basic spiritual needs. Still, the meaning of these drawings is unknown up to this time. As the caves were not inhabited, they served for seasonal rituals. One more possible meaning of paintings was their magic use;

In a classical way, Indian painting developed from the religious idols and gods of two main Indian religions: Buddhism and Hinduism. So, the painting is mainly concentrated on the depiction of religious scenes and procedures. Historically, there emerged six main art schools that have been developing from the earliest times;

The first painters who expressed their views on the painting and formed the theoretical fundamentals of modern painting were Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Kandinsky asserted that painting has a spiritual value, comparing prime colours with certain psychological associations;