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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;

Medieval Painting

The Medieval painting is characterized by the rise of traditions the European painting has never known before. The phenomenon that had the most considerable influence was the spread of Christianity. This world religion was based on certain dogmas and principles that were incorporated into social living of all Europe very quickly.

As for painting, the only trend it encouraged at least till the beginning of the 13th century was iconography. Initially, it was Byzantine that came to be Greek and Russian, and Roman that came to be Roman Catholic afterwards correspondingly.

The whole Christian ideology was targeted at the reflection of Christ's life and divine role of the Church. No surprise that painting was supposed to meet only these demands.

It was very popular to decorate the walls of the Christian temples with frescoes, sculpture and sign-ups. All themes were doing with religion, so that's why the central place was taken by God and Angels, but not by the human being. The very idea of human being at the main spot was hieratic and prohibited by the clergymen.

However, the 13th century brings the uprise of the Romanesque painting with the emergence of panel painting.

The first artists that changed the European painting were Cimabue and his pupil Giotto. They used more realistic and dramatic approach to painting in Western culture. In the 14th century, churches started to be decorated with colourful stained glass.

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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;