[vc_row section=”yes” padding_bottom=”no” vertical_align=”middle” bg_color=””][vc_column width=”1/2″][ish_image image=”216″ size=”theme-half” stretch_image=”yes” link_type=”image”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][ish_box color=”none” text_color=”none” border_color=”none” inner_padding=”30#30#30#30″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/1″][ish_headline tag_size=”h3″]Painting[/ish_headline][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/ish_box][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row section=”yes” padding_bottom=”no” vertical_align=”middle” bg_color=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. 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, plaster, gold leaf as well as objects.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row section=”yes” padding_bottom=”no” vertical_align=”middle” bg_color=””][vc_column align=”right” width=”1/2″][ish_box color=”none” text_color=”none” inner_padding=”30#30#30#30″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/1″][ish_headline tag_size=”h3″]Mode of creative expression[/ish_headline][vc_column_text]Painting is a mode of creative expression, and the forms are numerous. Drawing, gesture (as in gestural painting), composition, narration (as in narrative art), or abstraction (as in abstract art), among other aesthetic modes, may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/ish_box][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][ish_image image=”119″ size=”theme-half” stretch_image=”yes” link_type=”image”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_color=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][ish_image image=”117″ stretch_image=”yes” link_type=”image” show_caption=”yes”][ish_headline tag_size=”h3″]Non-traditional elements[/ish_headline][vc_column_text]Modern artists have extended the practice of painting considerably to include, for example, collage, which began with Cubism and is not painting in the strict sense. Some modern painters incorporate different materials such as sand, cement, straw or wood for their texture. Examples of this are the works of Jean Dubuffet and Anselm Kiefer. There is a growing community of artists who use computers to paint color onto a digital canvas using programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, and many others. These images can be printed onto traditional canvas if required.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]