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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;

Romanticism

Romanticism was an original breakthrough for all European art and painting was no exception. In general, it is a complex art movement that formed itself as a revolt against social and political oppression of several monarchies that governed in Europe at that time. Romanticism followed the Enlightenment and was a complete opposition to it.

For Romanticism, the main was a strong emotion, including trepidation, horror and awe. It involved folk art and viewed a human as a dependable creature. It found recurrent themes in complete criticism of the existing order of things and asserted the advent of the Armagedon.

One of the most outstanding Romantic painters was Caspar David Friedrich. His painting "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" (1818) made a real sensation in Germany in which Romanticism was only developing.

The French painters are Fransisco Goya ("The third of May, 1808", 1814) and Eugene Delacroix (Liberty leading the people", 1830) changed the way Romanticism developed in France up till that time.

In England, the greatest Romantic artist was J.M.W. Turner. His "The Fighting Temeraire" (1939) is considered to be one of the best English Romantic paintings.

In painting particularly, Romanticism practiced the cult of "sensibility", emphasizing women and children, the fatal destiny of the artist and wild, "pure" nature.

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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;