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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;

Background of painting

Painting is an art tend that originates from the earliest human civilizations. In other words, painting existed in the civilizations that gave rise to modern art. For this reason, the oldest known paintings date back to the primitive society. According to the official painting theory, the oldest known paintings were found at the Grotte Chauvet in France. They are claimed to be about 32,000 years old. They depict a lot of animals and humans hunting them. In Spain there were found the Altmira cave paintings that were done 14,000 to 12,000 BC and demonstrate bisons. In France, there was found one more cave Dordogne which contains one of the best known cave paintings.

As wee see, 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. These drawings were full of hunters chasing and killing animals and dancing in circle at the same time. By means of such pictures, prehistoric men did their best to "catch" animal's soul and spirit so that it would be easier to kill them.

The most obvious explanation coming to mind is that primitive people thought that symbolic description of animals might bewitch them. This is the most evident interpretation.

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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;