Painting

- Oldest known paintings: Chauvet Cave (32,000 years old)
- Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and paint with the other
- Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime
- Norman Rockwell claimed that if a picture wasn't going well, he'd put a puppy in it
- Grandma Moses began painting in her seventies

The visual art of Painting applies color or black and white tones to a surface. In the past, painting was confined to physical pigments directly applied to cloth, rock, or wood.
Traditional Painting has three mediums: Oil, Watercolor, and Acrylic. Now, in the digital age, people also paint in pixels. The iPhone app, "Brushes" is the latest in digital painting. Painting has also been open to include painting in Pastels, Chalk, and Ink. Body Painting and Tatooing is also considered painting in some circles.
Famous Painters
1. Pablo Picasso
2. Leonardo da Vinci
3. Michelangelo Buonarroti
4. Salvador Dali - "Destino" with Walt Disney
5. Francisco de Goya
6. Frida Kahlo
7. Claude Monet
8. Henri Matisse
9. Rembrandt van Rijn
10. Andy Warhol
11. Georgia O'Keeffe
12. Gustav Klimt
Current Painting Movements

Remodernist Stuckism Post-Modern

Painting on iPhone using Brushes

Q: What do you get when technology and painting combine? A: Painting without the clean-up. iPhone app for painters.

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