PAINTING

Painting has existed as a creative custom for almost more than thousand years. Be it the cave painting of Lascaux or the great masterworks of Da Vinci, paintings have always beguiled by the human beings. Mural painting and wall painting have mainly launched the theory of painting to established societies and due to this came numerous styles of painting. Allegorical, landscape, historical, religious and portraiture are all various forms of painting which have been developed over the years.

Thus, painting in today's modern world has seen many changes over the years and the only noticeable similarity among all is some type of coloring on a fa�ade. Career in paintings is known to be one of the best career options for those who have some potential for it.Painting is an art through one can make colours and lines a visual impression. It is the means by which one can express the ideas or feelings to others in pictorial form.

Painting not only means the traditional paintings on canvas, but even also on glass, ceramic, pot, fabric, etc as well as it could be using different paint mediums such as watercolor, pastels, oil, etc. Not only brushes but knives, spatula, nibs and even twigs are used for painting designs. Painting is most oftenly taken as a hobby but taking it up as a career is a different thing altogether. For making a living out of painting and that is not only a talent but also an ability to market oneself, make people want to buy painting products is of utmost importance.




A career in paintings is slowly becoming a good option in India as the prices of paintings done by Indian artists have soared a lot in recent years in the global market. And even in India, more and more people have started appreciating the works of art, thus increasing the commercial value of art works. And a career in art is not restricted to just being a painter of canvas that is framed and sold in gallery. There is a graphic or professional artist behind every work of art in a magazine, newspaper, poster and book.



With growing scope of Art industry, many art industries and companies require skilled artists and painters. Some of the renowned industries in India are- Jain Art industry, Harish Kutir Udyog Jaipur, Art Collection Jaipur, S. S. Manners, Fab Design, Bion Creations and Net Well.

Painting Acharya Nagarjuna University , Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) Allahabad University : Faculty of Arts, Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. Andhra University : Colleges of Arts and Commerce in Vishakapatnam. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing, New Delhi Berhampur University, Berhampur (Orissa) Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu) Bundelkhand University, Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh) Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) College of Arts and Crafts, Chennai (Tamil Nadu) Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra (Uttar Pradesh) Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University in the Department of Fine Arts, Aurangabad (Maharashtra) Goa College of Art, Panaji (Goa) Indira Kala Sangit Vishwavidyalaya , Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh. Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (Delhi) Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

There are graphic artists, mostly website designers, computer-graphic artists and animators working in various industries such as film, TV, computer games, art galleries, museums and teaching art theory. Photography, interior designing, shop window design, textile and cloth design, architecture and engineering, these fields need imaginative skills and expert painters.