Normally, a painting is understood to be a piece of pictorial art that can be of different dimensions but which, unlike frescoes or murals, is delimited by a frame or by the end of the support surface (which is on the most cases a piece of cloth or paper). The painting can be made for different purposes but, nevertheless, the decorative objective is the most common since it has to do with the creation of a work of art to be admired from certain points in a room.
The painting as a decorative element is undoubtedly one of the most basic and recurring objects when it comes to completing the stylistic design of a room, home or space. In technical terms, the painting is made up of a surface on which the pictorial or graphic design is executed, as well as a frame that delimits it and, finally, other accessory elements that are related to the disposition that said object will have on the walls. walls of a room or room.
If we analyze the painting as an artistic element, its existence occurs mainly after the Middle Ages and the development of the Renaissance, at which time hundreds of patrons commissioned private works of art from Florentine and Italian artists. In this way, painting as decoration for churches or public institutions ceased to be essential and art became an element of good economic spending. Since then, a large part of the most famous artistic works in history have acquired the format of a painting or a support separated from the wall.
When a pictorial work is carried out in a box, the artist must know how to handle the entire given space and carry out his painting in a proportional way to it. The arrangement of the elements of the work, the use of limits and the appropriate painting techniques will also be related to the specific style of the work.
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