What Is Painting?

WHAT IS PAINTING?
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 implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, 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.
WHAT IS CHINESE PAINTING?

Painting in the traditional style is known today in Chinese as gu hu (), meaning 'national' or 'native painting', as opposed to Western styles of art which became popular in China in the 20th century. Some modern examples of these traditional artworks can stem from Chinese artists such as Amanda Teh, and Jennifer Wu and Johnny Chen. Traditional painting involves essentially the same techniques as calligraphy and is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink; oils are not used. As with calligraphy, the most popular materials on which paintings are made of are paper and silk. The finished work can be mounted on scrolls, such as hanging scrolls or handscrolls. Traditional painting can also be done on album sheets, walls,lacquerware, folding screens, and other media.
VERTICAL WALL SCROLL AND HORIZONTAL HAND SCROLL

The horizontal hand scroll is a long narrow scroll for displaying a series of scenes in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean painting and calligraphy. The hand scroll presents an artwork in the horizontal form and can be exceptionally long, usually measuring up to a few meters in length and around 2540 cm in height. Hand scrolls are generally viewed starting from the right end. This kind of scroll is intended to be viewed flat on a table while admiring it section for section during the unrolling as if traveling through a landscape. In this way, this format allows for the depiction of a continuous narrative or journey. A vertical wall scroll is one of the many traditional ways to display and exhibit Chinese painting and calligraphy. Displaying the art in such way was befitting for public appreciation and appraisal of the aesthetics of the scrolls in its entirety by the audience. The traditional craft involved in creating such a work is considered an art in itself. Mountings can be divided into a few sections, such as hand scrolls, hanging scrolls, album leaves, and screens amongst others.
Hanging scrolls are generally intended to be displayed for short periods of time and are then rolled up to be tied and secured for storage. The hanging scrolls get rotated according to season or occasion, as such works are never intended to be on permanent display. The painting surface of the paper or silk can be mounted with decorative brocade silk borders. In the composition of a hanging scroll, the foreground is usually at the bottom of the scroll while the middle and far distances are at the middle and top respectively.
WHAT IS JAPANESE PAINTING?
Japanese painting ( kaiga, also gad ?) is one
of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese visual arts, encompassing a wide variety of genres and styles. As with the history of Japanese arts in general, the long history of Japanese painting exhibits synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and the adaptation of imported ideas, mainly from Chinese painting which was especially influential at a number of points; significant Western influence only comes from the later 19th century onwards, beginning at the same time as Japanese art was influencing that of the West .
WHAT IS INDIAN PAINTING?

Indian painting has a very long tradition and history in Indian art. The earliest Indian paintings were the rock paintings of pre-historic times, thepetroglyphs as found in places like Bhimbetka, some of them from before 5500 BC. India's Buddhist literature is replete with examples of texts which describe palaces of the army and the aristocratic class embellished with paintings, but the paintings of the Ajanta Caves are the most significant of the few survivals. Smaller scale painting in manuscripts was probably also practised in this period, though the earliest survivals are from the medieval period. Mughal painting represented a fusion of the Persian miniature with older Indian traditions, and from the 17th century its style was diffused across Indian princely courts of all religions, each developing a local style. Company paintings were made for British clients under the British raj, which from the 19th century also introduced art schools along Western lines, leading to modern Indian painting, which is increasingly returning to its Indian routes. Indian paintings provide an aesthetic continuum that extends from the early civilisation to the present day. From being essentially religious in purpose in the beginning, Indian painting has evolved over the years to become a fusion of various cultures and traditions.
WHAT IS THAI PAINTING?

Traditional Thai paintings showed subjects in two dimensions without perspective. The size of each element in the picture reflected its degree of importance. The primary technique of composition is that of apportioning areas: the main elements are isolated from each other by space transformers. This eliminated the intermediate ground, which would otherwise imply perspective. Perspective was introduced only as a result of Western influence in the mid-19th century. The most frequent narrative subjects for paintings were or are: the Jataka stories, episodes from the life of the Buddha, the Buddhist heavens and hells, and scenes of daily life. Some of the scenes are influenced by Thai folklore instead of following strict Buddhist iconography.
WHAT ARE COMPLEMENTARY AND TERSIARY COLORS?

Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined in the right proportions, produce a neutral color; either white, grey, or black. When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast and reinforce each other. They are widely used in art and design. The pairs of complementary colors vary depending upon the color model, and how the color is made. In painting, which uses what are called subtractive colors, the traditional primary secondary complementary color pairs, described since at least the early 18th century, were red green,yellowviolet, and blueorange. In the more accurate RGB color model, used to make colors on computer and television displays, red, green and blue light are combined at various intensities to make all the other colors. In this system, using what are called additive colors, the complementary pairs are redcyan, greenmagenta, and blueyellow. In color printing, another system of subtractive colors, the colors cyan, magenta, yellow and black are used to produce all printed colors; the CMYK-system complementary pairs are the same as in the RGB system: redcyan, greenmagenta, and blueyellow. A tertiary color is a color made by mixing either one primary color with one secondary color, or two secondary colors, in a given color space such as RGB (more modern) or RYB (traditional). Tertiary colors have specific names, one set of names for the RGB color wheel and a different set of names and colors for the RYB color wheel. These names are shown below.

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WHAT IS PAINTING?

WHAT IS CHINESE PAINTING?

VERTICAL WALL SCROLL AND HORIZONTAL HAND SCROLL

WHAT IS JAPANESE PAINTING?

Japanese painting ( kaiga, also gad ?) is one

WHAT IS INDIAN PAINTING?

WHAT IS THAI PAINTING?

WHAT ARE COMPLEMENTARY AND TERSIARY COLORS?

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