Painting

This article is about artistic painting. For other uses, see Painting (disambiguation).

"Painter" redirects here. For other uses, see Painter (disambiguation).

The Mona Lisa (1503–1517) by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world's most recognizable paintings.

An artistic depiction of a group of rhinos was made in the Chauvet Cave 30,000 to 32,000 years ago.

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix"^{[citation needed]} or "support").^[1] The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used.

In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects.

Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art).^[2] Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, narrative, symbolistic (as in Symbolist art), emotive (as in Expressionism) or political in nature (as in Artivism). 

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