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Decorative Painting
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	To decorate or embellish the architectonic spaces decorative painting is used. What is artistic painting and what is decorative painting its not clear or defined anywhere. We could use an expensive and famous painting to decorate a room and it will become a decorative painting. But most of the time the term decorative painting refers to paintings directly applied to the building surfaces or to non-artistic paintings that are hanged for the sole purpose of decorate. Would be Michelangelo's frescos of the Sistine Chapell considered decorative painting when they were applied to the ceilings and walls of the building? Painting is the practice of applying pigment suspended in a carrier (or medium) and a binding agent (a glue) to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas or a wall. This is done by a painter; this term is used especially if this is his or her profession. Evidence indicates that humans have been painting for about 6 times as long as they have been using written language. Artistic painting is considered by many to be among the most important of the art forms. The oldest known paintings are at the Grotte Chauvet in France, dated at about 32,000 years old. They are engraved and painted using red ochre and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, and mammoth. There are examples of cave painting all over the world. Are the paintings found in ancient cave walls considered decorative paintings? I think the answer to these questions depends on the painter intentions and not in the art itself. Decorative painting techniques Painting techniques include: Impasto, Computer painting (Digital), Glaze, Grisaille, New materials (painting), Pointillism (aka divisionism, 'stippling'), Scumble, Sfumato, Sumi-e, Wash, Brush Painting, (Partially) destructive techniques like grattage and peinture brulée, with which Joan Miró, among others, experimented. Painting supports Canvas, Panel painting, Mural (Walls), Paper, Painting media There is a wide variety of artists' paints available for the professional or ameteur artist.Different types of paint are usually identified by the medium that the pigment is suspended or embedded in, which determines the general working characteristics of the paint, such as viscosity, miscibility, solubility, drying time, etc. Examples include: Acrylic, Encaustic (wax), Fresco, Gouache, Ink, Oil, Heat-set oils, Water miscible oil paints, Pastel, including dry pastels, oil pastels, and pastel pencils, Spray paint (Graffiti), Tempera, Watercolor, Popular painting styles 'Style' is used in two senses: It can refer to the distinctive visual elements, techniques and methods that typify an individual artist's work. It can also refer to the movement or school that an artist is associated with. This can stem from an actual group that the artist was consciously involved with or it can be a category in which art historians have placed the painter. The word 'style' in the latter sense has fallen out of favour in academic discussions about contemporary decorative painting, though it continues to be used in popular contexts. Painting styles Abstract, Baroque, Constructivism , Cubism, Fauvism, Graffiti, Hard-edge, Impressionism, Mannerism, Modernism, Naïve art, Neo-classicism, Op-Art, Orientalism, Pointillism, Pop-Art, Postmodernism, Realism, Romanticism, Socialist Realism, Surrealism, Common decorative painting idioms Painting idioms include: Allegory, Bodegon, Botanical , Figure painting, Illustration, Industrial, Landscape, Portrait, Still life, Wa, A proposed and yet-unrealised development in decorative painting is four dimensional painting. Philosophy of painting Much theory of art is connected with painting. In 1890, the Parisian painter Maurice Denis famously asserted: "Remember that a decorative painting – before being a warhorse, a naked woman or some story or other – is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order." Thus many twentieth century developments in painting, such as Cubism, were reflections on the business of painting rather than on the external world, nature, which had previously been its core subject.
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