 in fear of engaarse, it is possible to be said that the public feels an interest every it gives more alive for the plastic arts, especially for the painting.
Almost known half a century ago, today the art books abound. They are bought, look, are offered like gift. The reproductions are edited by thousands; up to the humble postcard, supplanting to the familiar chromium, it is proud of being the messenger of a Van Gogh or of a Matisse.
Pushed by a movement without precedents, the linens leave the museums, where everything seemed to retain them, and they are going to give themselves a return to the world. In every stage innumerable eyes contemplate them. The exhibition rooms turn out to be too small. There are difficulties, agglomerations.
Let's observe, nevertheless, that what it takes to the nations towards the painting, with the force of a wave, exceeds in much to the simple curiosity. Conscious or unconsciously, the public gets fond of the works, love that turns into fervor between the young people.
From the fund of the Louvre, the Gioconda stays awake on his countless effigies that prolong throughout his secret irradiation. Is here the work of art only by definition, provided with the power of ubiquity. For our epoch the painting has become a presence in which it is waited, let's say it, a revelation species.
[Rene Berger, in "The knowledge of the painting"]
DEFINITION AND CONCEPT
Definitely the painting can be defined as the art of doing or as the work resultant from this art; to this plain definition it is possible to add that the painting is an artistic expression that looks for the representation of the beauty, that is to say of the art, on a two-dimensional surface, but that sometimes is three-dimensional, using the elements that him are proper, like the color, the lnea and the matter.
As the rest of the plastic arts has his origin in the reality and in the need of the man of the artistic creation. Along the art history, and of the history of the painting in particular, they have produced to themselves infinity of transformations of the function, of the taste, of the achievement, etc. of the painting, but there is a fact that remains, with independence of these changes and variants, which is the intense and discontinuous production of artistic objects; that is to say, the works of art creation that it is necessary to interpret as a phenomenon inherent in the history of the culture, of the civilization, of the thought and the religion for centuries.
It is possible to be said, therefore, that the painting, on one hand, answers to the psychological and philosophical need of the man to create art, but the same way he answers to the need to express the world as reality.
DIRECTORY
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Vincent van Gogh 
History
Small Art
Actuality 
Confidential
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The genre notion is founded on the nature of the matter; it is, therefore, a category inside which there can qualify the pictorial works as his common features, both of form and of content. 
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