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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;

Impressionism

Impressionism was an art movement that originated as a Paris-based art association in the 1860s. The movement title comes from Claude Monet work named "Impression, Sunrise".

In the same way as Romanticism was opposite to the Enlightenment 60 years ago, Impressionism was a revolutionary movement for its epoch. Its features included open composition, brush strokes, ordinary object of painting and its main characteristics that was light. Impressionists claimed that every scene can be painted with light and light is the best expressive medium.

They also concentrated on the application of colours that were freely brushed, confirming that colour is the main form of self-expression. Another eminent feature of that movement was that painters took the act itself out of studio into the world. Their main objective lied in "catching" the momentary effects that could be see in the open air. Staying outdoors made them closer to life and wild nature.

They mixed colours adding only short strokes achieving the effect of intense colour vibration.

The most famous impressionist came from France. They were Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro and Paul Cezanne.

At first hostile, the public got accustomed to the positive nature of Impressionism. Nonetheless, Impressionism didn't receive acclaim of the art critics and establishment.

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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;