Paint and Painting

Painting is an artistic manifestation of a visual nature that uses a set of techniques and materials to capture, on a given surface, a graphic composition according to certain aesthetic values .

Painting combines elements of plastic representation such as shapes, colors, textures, harmony, balance, perspective, light, and movement. In this way, he seeks to convey to the viewer an aesthetic experience.

In this sense, aesthetics refers to the perception of art through the senses and each painting manifests the aesthetic values ​​of the painter, evoking emotions, concepts, ideas, and innumerable interpretations in a social, psychological, cultural, political, or religious sense.

As a technique or discipline, painting consists of applying a series of pigments to a certain surface (fabric, paper, wood, ceramics, metal) to compose the artist’s feelings with shapes, colors and textures.

On the other hand, as paint it can also be called the color prepared to paint any type of surface, such as paint for interiors, for cars, for swimming pools or for wood.

The word painting can be used to refer to a vivid and detailed description or representation of people or things using the word, such as: «He made me a painting of the woman who came and, according to his description, it cannot be other than Leticia».

Painting is one of the oldest expressions of fine arts. Its origin is traced in the cave paintings scattered throughout the planet and that remain valid as works of art.