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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;

Baroque

In the beginning of the 16th century, there starts a new cultural era in Europe. This epoch will last for two centuries representing the peak of the French absolutism and chic of the French royal court. Sometimes, this art trend is known as the High Renaissance. Its main art genres are painting, sculpture and architecture. The most well-known denomination of it is Baroque (the most luxurious form of which is Rococo). This painting style featured the wealth and splendour. France was the most prominent country in this art style, enjoying the greatest and most magnificent European court in the 17th-18th centuries.

Among the greatest painters of the Baroque are Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velasquez and Vermeer. Caravaggio's realistic approach to the human being, taken right out of life and shown on the dark background, was amazing indeed. It produced a shocking effect upon his contemporaries and actually opened a new chapter in painting history. It was natural for Baroque to dramatize and idealize the surrounding reality as the clients these masterpieces were created for were usually extremely rich people and had no desire to be aware of grieves and woes of the poor.

In the 18th century (the Age of Reason and Rationalism), the Baroque was substituted by a decadent sub-genre Rococo. This style grew to be even more playful, frivolous and erotic. The best example of the French Rococo of the 18th century is Louvre. All its interior is decorated with incredible naked ladies, bushy dogs and kissing angels. It is the reflection of the ruling class of that time: nobility entertained and lived in full swing. They didn't take interest in anything else and their art is the ideal reflection of their living. The most characteristic French masters are Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard.

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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;