| Painting is a type of fine arts, related to reproduction of visual
objects by using colors on hard or flexible fabric surfaces and also
artworks, created by such method.
Widely acknowledged painting works are made on flat or almost flat
surfaces such as canvas, stretched on a frame support, wood, board,
paper, finished wall surfaces (fresco) etc. Representations, which are
made using colors on decorative and ceremonial pots and jars, surfaces
of which can have complex shape, also belong to paintings.
Russian word "Painting" indicates on realism of art in Baroque era
when in Russia, paintings were made in Western style, predominantly
using oil colors. Verb "write" is used in icon painting as well as in
Greek. At the same time, "Picture" can be understood as vigorous,
original and peculiar writing manner i.e. as own script.
In connection of paintings with script, semiotics see specific manner
of creating the symbols.
Painting history is developing and wanders, in particular, in these
two senses: In representation, reality and signed: From icons
(character sketch) for abstraction.
Painting media:
- Oil;
- Distemper;
- Enamel;
- Water colors;
- Gouache ;
- Pastel;
- Indian ink;
- Painting on stucco, fresco and glass;
- Glue painting;
- Wax paintings; Encaustic, wax distemper and cold method (wax
colors on turpentine);
- Ceramic color paintings;
- Silicate color paintings;
Painting media is practically inexhaustible. Everything, which leaves
traces on something, strictly speaking, is a painting. Painting is
created by nature, time and by a human being. This was already quoted
by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Traditional painting media: Encaustic, distemper (with egg),
wall-mounting (lime), glue and other types. From XV century, oil
colors have been popularly used in paintings. Synthetic colors with
binding substance made of polymers (acrylic, vinylic etc) shall
appear. Colors can be manufactured from natural and artificial
pigments.
Water-colors, gouache, Chinese ink and semi-drawing media - pastel -
also belong to paintings group.
Painting can be made on any base: On rock, stucco, on canvas, silk,
paper and skin (including the body of an animal or human being), on
metal, asphalt, concrete etc.
Paintings converge and go along with plastic arts including
architecture, sculpture. Painting can participate in the formation of
artificial and natural media.
Painting, as other fine arts, is insubstantial: Painting - Simulation
of 3D space in plane, attained through linear and color perspectives.
But painting's visual and color aspect (in a split second, an eye can
practically conceive infinite information) calls for an exclusive
place for paintings amongst all fine arts.
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During the routine X-Ray examination of Van Gogh's painting "The Ravine", displayed at the Boston Museum, another painting by Van Gogh was discovered in the deeper layer. Surprisingly, historians have been looking for this "hidden" painting elsewhere for decades, as its sketches known as "Wild Vegetation" were previously found and gave an indication that the complete painting should exist somewhere. Both paintings were done in 1889 with the gap of four months, when the famous Dutch painter decided that he no longer liked the "Wild Vegetation" and painted over it.
