2. 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.
• A mode of
expression. Drawing, composition or
abstraction and other aesthetics may serve
to manifest the expressive and conceptual
intention of the practitioner.
What is Painting?
3. How Painting came to be?
• Prehistoric men may have painted animals
to "catch" their soul or spirit in order to
hunt them more easily or the paintings
• may represent an animistic vision and
homage to surrounding nature,
• or they may be the result of a basic need of
expression that is innate to human beings,
or
• they could have been for the transmission
of practical information.
Possible Meanings of Early Paintings
4. How Painting came to be?
• Humans have been painting for
about 6 times as long as they
have been using written
language.
• Today, the study is categorized
according to the places
namely….
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