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Painting is the practice of applying pigment suspended in a carrier (or medium) and a binding agent (a glue) to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas or a wall. This is done by a painter; this term is used especially if this is his or her profession. Humans have been painting for about 6 times as long as they have been using written language. Artistic painting is considered by many to be among the most important of the art forms.

1 History of painting

Main article: History of Painting

The oldest known paintings are at the Grotte Chauvet in France, dated at about 32,000 years old. They are engraved and painted using red ochreRed ochre is a red pigment that has been used worldwide since prehistoric times. In Germanic rune lore, red ochre was often used in place of blood to redden, or tint, the runes and thereby instilling the spirit of life into the rune, enabling it to be use and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, and mammoth. There are examples of cave paintingCave, or rock, paintings are paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to pre-historic times. European cave paintings When Europeans first encountered the Magdalenian paintings of southern France and Cantabrian Spain some 150 ye all over the world.

See also Art historyPart of the Art history series. Pre-historic art Arts of the ancient world European art history Islamic art Arts of the Far East Contemporary art Art history usually refers to the history of the visual arts. Although ideas about the definition of art have.

2 Painting techniques

• ImpastoImpasto is a technique used in painting where paint is laid on the canvas very thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas. Impasto features strongly in many oil paintin
• WashThe term 'wash' can mean several things: Cleaning A wash is the act of cleaning. I wash my hands in soapy water. See also hand washing Painting A wash is a light covering of watercolor on a painting. When painting three-dimensional models, they can be use
• GlazeGlaze is a term for painting with a transparent medium. In other words, whatever is on the surface beneath the glaze will still be apparent after the glaze has been applied. The glaze will merely change the color cast of the surface. This is a technique t
• GrisailleGrisaille (Fr. gris grey) is a term for painting executed entirely in monochrome, in various shades of grey, particularly used in decoration to represent objects in relief. A grisaille could not only be executed for its own sake as a decoration, it may al
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• PointillismSunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat Pointillism is a style of painting in which non- primary colors are generated, not by the mixing of pigments in the palette nor by using pigments directly, but by the visual mixing of poi (aka divisionism, 'stippling')
• Sfumato
• Sumi-e
• New materials (painting)
• Computer painting (Digital)
• (Partially) destructive techniques like grattage and peinture brulée , with which Joan Miró, among others, experimented.