“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...

The word painting can be used as a verb (a doing or action word), e.g. The artist was painting her self-portrait. The word painting can also be used as a noun to talk about the piece of art painted by ...