Painting

In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. 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, narration and abstraction. 
• Paintings can be naturalistic and representational, photographic, abstract, narrative, emotive, or political in nature.