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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;

Cubism

Cubism was the leading art movement, established by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque that completely changed European painting firstly and foremostly. These artists were main innovators. After 1907, Picasso began developing Cubism. After Baroque left Fauvism in 1908, the advancement of Cubism acquired a greater pace. It had three branches, including Analytic, Synthetic and Late Cubism.

Speaking about the core of Cubism, we must say that objects are broken up, analyzed, reunited in a certain way. The main thing comes to the descriving an object from different viewpoints in order to present this or that topic in a greater context. Other objects and things on the painting fill the rest of the space in a special way, interweaving with each other.

The roots of Cubism date back to the Ancient African and Native American Art that was quite different from European as its powerful consisted in its simplicity. So, when observed by Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin, this non-traditional art amazed them and challenged to create a new art movement.

They decided they would represent all the surfaces of the object in a single plane so that the object could be seen at any angle from the short distance. While painting, they broke the surface into multifaceted paint areas and emphasized the plural viewpoint in this very way.

Right after the rise of Cubism, there appeared both its followers and opponents, especially among critics. Still, Cubism has been developing for more than a year and enjoying great demand nowadays.

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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;