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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;

The Revival of Learning

The Revival of Learning was like a storm on the fine day. It was an "arousal" after Dark Barbaric Ages and the awakening started with art, to be more exact with painting and literature. The Revival of Learning is confirmed to be the golden age of pictorial art.

All Renaissance painters elevated painting to a much higher level presenting the best example for future generations. The names of Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli, Raphael, Titian and many, many others will never be committed to oblivion. Italian artists are regarded as the Southern representatives of the Renaissance period.

Dutch and German painters, including Albrecht Dürer, Hieronymous Bosch, Pieter Brueghei, etc present a different approach that seems to be more realistic and less idealized. If Italian artists turned to the art of Ancient Greece and Rome, the Northern creators preferred the style of Medieval sculpture.

The Revival of Learning reveals a real revolution of ideas and opinions. The Church doesn't have that enormous affluence as before, the region isn't that important and the most essential place in all European art (painting is no exception) is taken by human. Artists become free to include visions of the surrounding world, and products of their own imaginations as well.

The 16th century witnesses the blossom of panel painting. It becomes increasingly popular both for churches and private estates. Panel paintings become integrated into walls as permanent structures.

The logical end of the Revival of Learning was the High Renaissance or the so-called Mannerism. The Mannerists looked for instability, doubt and impermanence.

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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;