Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. The final work is also called a painting.
Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in a style life or landscape painting), photographic abstract, narrative, symbolics (as in Symbolist art), emotive (as in Expressionism), or political in nature (as in Artivism).
In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, papers, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, potter, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, as well as objects.
Aesthetics is the study of art and beauty; it was an important issue for 18th- and 19th-century philosophers such as Kant and Hegel. Classical philosophers like Plato and Aristotle also theorized about art and painting in particular. Plato disregarded painters (as well as sculptors) in his philosophical system; he maintained that painting cannot depict the truth it is a copy of reality (a shadow of the world of ideas) and is nothing but a craft, similar to shoemaking or iron casting. By the time of Leonardo, painting had become a closer representation of the truth than painting was in Ancient Greece. Leonardo da Vinci, on the contrary, said that “Italian: La Pittura è cosa mentale” (“English: painting is a thing of the mind“). And FRADI is bringing the theory of these great men of history live to this descent generation so that they may, truth may dwell in the mind of youth.
These painting styles are thought and spread by to and by Fradians, Allegory, Bodegón, Illustration painting, Landscape painting, Portrait painting, Still life, Veduta, Figure painting.