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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;

Modern painting

The end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century witnessed the essential changes for the development of modern art. The development of the newest technologies led to the loss of its previous strong-hold positions and had to change its structure and contents. As a matter of fact, traditional art had to compete with the newest high-tech.

This epoch saw the emergence of several painting trends that had never appeared before. The most important of them are Cubism, Abstractionism and Modernism (Fauvism). Three of them were later divided into different sub-genres which will be viewed in three subsequent chapters.

The founder of Modernism was Henri Matisse. At his time, he revolutionized Paris with "wild", multi-coloured, expressive landscapes and figure paintings. It was an absolutely new painting style with intense warm colours against the blue-green background.

Modernism had no concrete theories and was very short lived, starting with 1905 and ending in 1907. Matisse was seen the leader of the movement which lasted for very little. He was delighted with intense warm colours and rhythmical succession of dancing nudes (nudism was rather popular at that time).

Still, Modernism expressed the fatality and predeterminacy of the human being that was confirmed in the course of the World War Second.

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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;