Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface called the “matrix” or “support“. 

The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, may 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 of visual art, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture, narration, and abstraction.


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).


A portion of the history of painting in both Eastern and Western art is dominated by religious art.


Examples of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery, to Biblical scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, to scenes from the life of Buddha (or other images of Eastern religious origin).


The oldest known paintings are approximately 40,000 years old, found in both the Franco-Cantabrian region in western Europe, and in the caves in the district of Maros (Sulawesi, Indonesia).

Here at the place, our artist Stelios creates unique pieces of art.
Complete range of paintings on canvas and wood, rock art, Pebble art and more can be found at her studio here.

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