The Functions Of Painting.

The development of art, visual methods and means of expression, long ago withdraw beyond the understanding of the basic task of painting – “reproduction of reality”. The tasks of painting involves not only an organization of space on the plane, which is guided and limited by re-creation of its three-dimensional environment, moreover, certain methods have long been regarded as a “deadlock” in the development of art (in the context of understanding and rethinking of the adequacy of the perception).

The plane, like the color, has an independent integrity and value; together they dictate their conditions in the synthesis of form and the plane itself – and in conjunction with three-dimensional time space. The artist can no longer be satisfied with a set of illusory techniques (“illusion”), he follows the needs of new understanding of beauty, having abandoned the obsolete methods of expression and the impact on the viewer, looks for new forms, dialectically returns to the best of the rejected, and thus comes to an understanding and implementation of new values.

Regarding the fallacy of strict exclusion of painting from plastic arts, even the theory of “orthodox” Art also has long made a reassessment. Plastic Arts are divided, in turn, into the fine and not descriptive. The fine arts include painting, sculpture, graphic art, monumental art. The second type includes architecture, decorative arts and industrial design. The boundaries between fine and not descriptive arts are not absolute.

Like other forms of art, painting can perform cognitive, aesthetic, religious, ideological, socio-educational or documentary feature.

However, the basic and primary expressive and informative value of painting is color, which in itself is a carrier of ideas (including the effect of psychological factors impact and perception).

Nevertheless, evolving along with the man and the world, painting acquired a new interpretation and a new understanding of the task. Thus, initially having clear signs of independent plastic characteristics (no coincidence one of the key parameters separating the painting technique from graphic is stroke, which provides a wide range of plastic possibilities – most certainly the most abundant form – oil painting, but of course – many new species and techniques, implying the synthesis of forms). Presentation of the ways and tasks of painting, as well as all means and ways of expression, art studies and creative environment experienced the overt influence of general cognitive process, but naturally they have influenced it, having touched many aspects of philosophy and human activities.

Rethinking of the functions of painting passed through the negation of its feasibility, through awareness that “this is a deep irrational process” – in this opinion has been shared many artists and philosophers. A new understanding of art and its tasks was prepared by their development: it was impossible to fit the full transience of life, technical and technological, and finally – the social and moral changes in the Procrustean couch of ideological and academic dogmas and clichés, priestly insulating art from the development of life, which reduces it to a “well-understood and long-known” function itself this deep creative process.

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