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Painting taken factually is the practice of applying color balanced in a vehicle (or medium) and a binding agent (a glue) to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas ,wood panel or a wall. On the other hand, when used in an creative sense it means the use of this activity in combination with drawing, composition and further artistic considerations in order to manifest the expressive and conceptual meaning of the practitioner. Painting is also used to state spiritual motifs and ideas; sites of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting legendary figures on pottery to The Sistine Chapel to the human body itself.

Colour is the essence of painting as sound is of music. Colour is highly subjective, but has apparent emotional effects, although these can differ from one civilization to the next. Black is associated with grief in the West, but elsewhere white may be. Some painters, theoreticians, writers and scientists, including Goethe, Kandinsky, Newton, have written their own colour theory. Furthermore the use of language is only a generalisation for a colour equivalent. The word "red", for example, can cover a wide range of variations on the unadulterated red of the spectrum. There is not a formalised register of different colours in the way that there is conformity on different notes in music, such as C or C#, although the Pantone system is widely used in the printing and design industry for this purpose.

Current artists have extended the practice of painting significantly to include, for example, collage. This began with Cubism and is not painting in 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 or Anselm Kiefer.

Modern and contemporary art has moved away from the historic value of craft in favour of thought; this has led some to say that painting, as a serious art form, is dead, although this has not deterred the greater part of artists from continuing to practise it either as whole or part of their shirt.

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Painting taken factually is the practice of applying color balanced in a vehicle (or medium) and a binding agent (a glue) to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas ,wood panel or a wall.

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