Painting

Painting is the practice of applying a pigment in a liquid carrier to a surface in order to colour that surface. In a more specific sense, it is the art of painting a surface, such as paper, canvas, or a wall (mural), to depict a subject or express an idea. Painting is an extremely important art form - many of the world's most important works of art, such as the Mona Lisa, are paintings.

Painting techniques include:

Impasto

Wash, drip

Glaze

Encaustic

Fresco

scumble and stipple

The medium is the vehicle that the pigment is suspended or embedded in. Examples include:

Oil paint

Water-miscible oils

Heat-set oils

Acrylic paint

Colored pencil

Gouache

Ink

Pastel

Tempera

wax

Watermedia painting

Painting styles can be characterized by the method of application (loose or tight) or by the predominant characteristics that the painting expresses.

Painting tools include the various types of:

Artists brush

Palette knife

sponge

fingers

canvas

gesso

Paint is made up of pigment and media, with perhaps drying accelerants, texture enhancers, and other modifiers added.

Mural

New materials (painting)

Tempera

Oil painting

Panel painting

For historical and contemporary movements in painting, see History of painting.

You can also see a list of artistic Painters.

Recently, computer painting is rapidly becoming a tool of modern painters.

A proposed and yet-unrealised development in painting is four dimensional painting.

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What are our priorities for writing in this area? To help develop a list of the most basic topics about painting, please see Painting basic topics.

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External links to art-related sites (sources of information for writing Wikipedia articles):

http://www.metmuseum.org/

http://www.moma.org/docs/menu/index.htm

http://www.artchive.com/

http://www.rmn.fr/US/index2.html

http://www.sensable.com/

http://www.virtualberet.org/

http://www.bostoncyberarts.org/splash.html

http://www.walkerart.org/

http://www.stunned.org/

http://www.NextMonet.com/

http://www.internationalposter.com/

http://www.bertimosaici.com/

http://www.musee-orsay.fr:8081/ORSAY/ORSAYGB/HTML

http://frick.org/

http://artmuseum.net/

http://www.groveart.com/