In a basic term painting is a practice of using different colors to a surface like paper, canvas, glass, wood, or other. On the other hand, when used it for artistic sense, the term "painting" explains the use of this activity in combination with composition, drawing and few other aesthetic considerations to make the expression clear and conceptual intention of the practitioner.

Painting is basically used as a medium of representing, documenting and expressing all the diverse intents and subjects, which are as several as there are practitioners of the technique. Paintings could be naturalistic and emblematic, photographic, abstract, be full with story content, imagery, emotion or be political naturally. A huge part of the history of painting is ruled by spiritual motifs and thoughts; sites of this kind of painting vary from artwork portrait mythological figures on pottery to biblical scenes made on the interior walls and ceiling of The Sistine Chapel to depictions of the human body itself as a spiritual subject.