Advantages of Painting

• One of the 3 basic arts: Literature, Painting and Music.

• Natural. Children Paint.

• Simple equipment.

• There is only the brush between the artist and the work.

• Maximum control over the medium.

• Imaginative. Not restricted to particular models.

• Most conceptual works could be expressed as paintings.

• The artist's ideas and feelings are in the paint.

• Can be done by a single person.

• Still, therefore a good object for contemplation.

• A lot can be said in a small space.

• A painting contains a whole world.

• A painting resembles the thing it represents.

• Painting is a universal language.

• Does not require a symbolic notation.

• Does not have to be performed.

• Occupies the minimum of space.

• Can be reproduced photographically.

• Portable.

• Inexpensive to produce.

• Tried and tested.

     J.B.