Guide Note:Painting is a visual art. Apply color or black and white tones to a surface and you're painting. In the past Painting was confined to physical pigments directly applied to cloth, rock or wood. Now, in the digital age, we're painting in pixels.
Fast Facts:
- The Chauvet Cave contains the oldest known cave paintings, possibly 32,000 years old
- Picasso is widely considered to be the most influential artist of the 20th Century
- Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and paint with the other
- Impressionist painter 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
