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                                                                                                          POSTMODERN
                                                                                                         PAINTING. Stella
                                                                                                       alternately paints in
                                                                                                         oil and watercolor



         STELLA YOUNG:


         LIFE OF A PAINTER                                                                Take a peek into a day
                                                                                           in the life of budding
                                                                                           artist Stella Young,
                                                                                          and how she improves
         by Samantha McArthur
         Photos by John Adams                                                                  her craft

         Painting, according to Wikipedia, is the  other materials including sand, clay, paper,
         practice of applying paint, pigment, or  plaster, gold leaf as well as objects.
         other medium to a surface.
                                              Painting is a mode of creative expression,
         The medium is commonly applied to the  and the forms are numerous. Drawing,  “What did I
         base with a brush but other implements,  gesture, composition, narration, or
         such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes,   abstraction, among other aesthetic modes,  come here to
         can be used.                         may serve to manifest the expressive and
                                              conceptual intention of the practitioner.  do? I, as an
         Painting describes both the act and the
         result of the action. Paintings may have for  Paintings can be naturalistic and  artist, am
         their support surfaces as walls, paper,  representational, photographic, abstract, be  here to live
         canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay, leaf,  loaded with narrative content, symbolistic ,
         copper or concrete, and may incorporate   emotive, or be political in nature.  out loud.”

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