Painting
an art which, by means of light, shade, and color, represents on a plane surface all objects presented to the eye or to the imagination. It was practiced by the Egyptians several thou sand years before the Christian era.
PAISH Painting appears to have had its origin among all nations as a species of writing. Considered as an art, it may be said to consist of two chief parts-out- PALACIO VALDÉS shire, on the White Cart, about 3 miles above the confluence of the united White and Black Cart with the Clyde, and 7 miles W. S. W. of Glasgow. It consists line and design. Outline is a design of an old town on the W. or left, and a without color, and examples of it may new town on the E. or right bank of be seen in the cartoons of Raphael, the river, communicating by three hand- Retzsch, Flaxman, and others. Design, some bridges. The most noteworthy properly so called, includes outline, rep- building is the Abbey Church, now a parresenting the contour of objects, together ish church, belonging to a monastery (of with color, which gives to the image not which little else now remains) founded only the hue, but also the form and in 1163 by Walter, son of Alan, the first relief proper to the object. The techni- of the house of the Stewarts. ts. In 1889 cal processes of painting are oil paint- a monument was erected by Queen Vicing, water color painting, painting, encaustic toria in memory of her ancestors buried painting, miniature painting, fresco painting, enamel painting, etc. There are at least 10 branches of the art, viz., history, grotesques, portraits, fancy, animals, flowers and fruits, seascape, landscape, still life, and battle pieces.