Painting

Intro
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface. Typically painting is done with a brush, but items like sponges or knives can also be used. In art the term Painting can be used to describe the act of Painting but also the finished product

Painting as culture
Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, narrative, symbolistic (as in Symbolist art), emotive (as in Expressionism) or political in nature (as in Artivism).

History of painting
The oldest known paintings are believed to be around 32,000 years old, they are engraved and painted using red ochre and black pigment. They show horses, rhinos, lions, buffalos and other various animals. The invention of photography had a major impact on the painting world, depriving much of its value as a historic record. A series of art movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—notably Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, and Dadaism—challenged the Renaissance view of the world. Eastern and African painting, however, continued a long history of stylization and did not undergo an equivalent transformation at the same time

Characters who have Painted

 * Snively