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Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is also used outside of art as a common trade among craftsmen and builders. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay, leaf, copper or concrete, and may incorporate multiple other materials including sand, clay, paper, gold leaf as well as objects.
Painting is a mode of creative expression, and the forms are numerous. Drawing, composition or abstraction and other aesthetics may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in a still life or landscape painting), photographic, abstract, be loaded with narrative content, symbolism, emotion or be political in nature.
A portion of the history of painting in both Eastern and Western art is dominated by spiritual motifs and ideas; examples of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery to Biblical scenes rendered on the interior walls and ceiling of The Sistine Chapel, to scenes from the life of Buddha or other images of eastern religious origin.
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Paul Laffoley - Lucid Dream Painting [video]
Paul Laffoley at his Bromfield Street studio on June 12, 1994, discussing his painting "It Came From Beneath Space."
The Odd Luminary
Fine Art Prints
12 Year Old Girl Paints Heaven [video]
An Atheist Family with a 12 Year Old Daughter who painted Heaven since age 6.
Beatrice Wood [video]
Wood developed a personal and uniquely expressive art form with her lusterwares. Her sense of theater is still vividly alive in these works.
Paul Laffoley
A U.S. artist and architect who worked for 18 months on design for the World Trade Center Tower II. As a painter, his work is usually classified as visionary art or outsider art.
Salvador Dali Art Gallery
An extensive gallery of masterpiece paintings, drawings, watercolors and objects from the greatest abstract artists of all time including information on the abstract art, surrealism and dadaism movements.
Patricia M. Bowers - Intuitive & Visonary Painter
A best-selling author and kick-ass speaker. He writes books and essays, lectures @ Fortune 500 companies & top universities on creativity, management and a fun mix of everything.
The Philosophers' Stone Art Studio
In this web site I have combined various philosophies into their fundamental components and realigned them with each other.
Famous Art Mistakes
Not even the great masters of the art world should be immune from criticism. Take a look at these seven famous works of art with bizarre mistakes you can't unsee.
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