Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of
applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface
(called "matrix"[1] or "support").[2] The medium is commonly applied to
the base with a brush. Other implements, such as palette knives,
sponges, airbrushes, the artist's fingers, or even a dripping technique
that uses gravity may be used. One who produces paintings is called a
painter. In art, the term "painting" describes both the act and the
result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The
support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas,
wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the
painting may incorporate other materials, in single or multiple form,
including sand, clay, paper, cardboard, newspaper, plaster, gold leaf,
and even entire objects. Painting is an important form of visual art,
bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture, narration,
and abstraction.[3] Paintings can be naturalistic and representational
(as in portraits, still life and landscape painting--though these genres
can also be abstract), photographic, abstract, narrative, symbolist (as
in Symbolist art), emotive (as in Expressionism) or political in nature
(as in Artivism).
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