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The term “art” can define the most different objects — from prehistoric drawings on stones and ceramics to obstruction of household and industrial stuff in art galleries. But though to art area also refer music, theatre, ballet and the literature, more often this term means the fine arts, and first of all painting.

For centuries people tried to understand what is art. Artists and critics quarreled and argued about this, adhering to the most different opinions. The French artist Manet has so strongly differed in opinion from one of critics that has challenged him on duel. There are many questions at issue, but there is not and will not be unequivocal, intelligible answers. Everybody has own tastes and opinions — and only you should choose what you like more.

For someone art should be, first of all, fine, for others — realistic, for third it is more important, that it transfers mood or feeling. There are many diversified pictures in the world: one differs with almost photographic accuracy, others are much more outlined, but very precisely shows the mood …

One people believe that art should express certain ideas; others prefer to enjoy art for the sake of art. Just about it impressionists also had big discussions — someone from them considered that it is necessary to reproduce scenes from a modern life, others were more interested in studying of influence of light on subjects.

It frequently becomes a subject of fierce disputes also cost of art works. Vincent Van Gogh has died in poverty as nobody wished to buy his pictures, and today his art works have big prices among the most valuable works of art in the world.

To help the spectator to understand sense of a picture, artists frequently place the hidden helps — symbols on it. They are connected with the general concepts sometimes. For example, the book symbolizes the doctrine, a sword or other weapon – fights, and a blossoming branch of a tree or a flower – beauty and pleasure. Besides, symbols help to understand, who is represented in a picture. Known characters, for example sacred, are often represented with the symbolical subjects associating with history of their life so experts can understand whom the artist has presented in the picture. In any pictures it is possible to find set of helps – here only it is necessary to know what to search.

For perception of a picture it is also very important to know, for what purpose it was created: did the artist wish to decorate a palace with it or write it for church? And it can be, it intended for an exhibition in gallery where visitors would admire with the beauty or it would force them to reflect on the ideas expressed in it… Is there in product any political, social either moral sense or the main thing in it is to express emotions?

Though… Artist Renoir wrote various paintings, and people bought his pictures just because they liked them.

At studying of painting works is important not only style of the image, but also paints. Art materials and methods were changed. The manner of painting is so individual, as handwriting. Some artists put paints smoothly, creating a smooth surface; others use separate, sometimes sharp dabs. Everything depends only on preference of the artist.

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