Painting, in its purest form, is the expression of ideas and emotions and embodies itself as a creation of certain aesthetic qualities. At its core, it is a two-dimensional visual language in itself. Its words being the shapes and lines, and its emotions being the colour, tone, and texture.

The sole purpose of painting is to ignite the senses. To produce a sensation of volume, space, movement, and light on the flat canvas.

The artist makes a number of decisions – decision to use a particular medium such as tempera, fresh oil, acrylic, watercolour, or other water-based paint, ink gouache, encaustic or casein as well as the decision of a particular from such as mural easel, panel, miniature, manuscript illumination scroll screen or fan, panorama, or any of a variety of contemporary forms. His decisions shape the final sensation qualities and the expressive possibilities and limitation of the final creation.

During the 19^th century, when the artists started securing patronage of wealthy families in Europe, the true renaissance of painting began. It was then that artists started experimenting with the elements and principals of design, with the various mediums, with subject matters and with symbolism. This experimentation gave birth to the various schools of art that defined the art forms that we relish today.

Art is a great story in itself.

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