Paintings were first discovered in South West France in the Lascaux caves from the Upper Paleolithic Age, around 40,000 to 100,000 years ago, which shows that painting is one of the oldest types of art form that exist.
Technically, a painting is two-dimensional art from which is made up of layers of pigment applied onto a surface. The surface on which the pigment is applied varies from stone (used in Paleolithic Age) to paper, wood, cloth and canvas.
As the surface of painting differs, so do the materials used to create the pigments. During the Paleolithic Age colored earth was used, followed by plants extract and more recently synthetic clothing . There are many types of paintings, but amongst the well-known are oil, acrylic, pastel, spray painting and water color.
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