*"21st Century Little Artist Riya Vaishnav"*

The emerging little Artist..

Last week She won 2 - Regional Painting Competition among thousands of competitors-

Got 1st Prize in Udaipur Bird Festival Painting Competition & Winner of RANGREZZ Season VII 94.3 MyFM Painting Competition.

Riya has a fantastic hold on her brush in all mediums like Water Colour, Acrylic Colour or Oil Colour!

In Art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper, and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf and even whole objects.

Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture, narration and abstraction.

A portion of the history of painting in both Eastern and Western art is dominated by religious art. Examples of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery, to Biblical scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling,to scenes from the life of Buddha(or other images of Eastern religious origin).

Until 2018, the oldest known paintings were believed to be about 32,000 years old, at the Grotte Chauvet in France. They are engraved and painted using red ochre and black pigment and they show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, mammoth, abstract designs, and what are possibly partial human figures. Cave paintings were then found in Indonesia in the Lubang Jeriji Saleh cave believed to be 40,000 years old. However, the earliest evidence of the act of painting has been discovered in two rock-shelters in Arnhem Land, in northern Australia. In the lowest layer of material at these sites, there are used pieces of ochre estimated to be 60,000 years old. Archaeologists have also found a fragment of rock painting preserved in a limestone rock-shelter in the Kimberley region of North-Western Australia, which is dated 40,000 years old. In Western cultures Oil Painting and Watercolor painting have rich and complex traditions in style and subject matter. In the East, ink and color ink historically predominated the choice of media, with equally rich and complex traditions.

Eastern and African painting, however, continued a long history of stylization and did not undergo an equivalent transformation at the same time.

Modern and contemporary art has moved away from the historic value of craft and documentation in favor of the concept. This has not deterred the majority of living painters from continuing to practice painting either as a whole or as part of their work. The vitality and versatility of painting in the 21st century defy the previous "declarations" of its demise. In an epoch characterized by the idea of pluralism, there is no consensus as to the representative style of the age. Artists continue to make important works of art in a wide variety of styles and aesthetic temperaments - their merits are left to the public and marketplace to judge.

 21st Century Little Artist Riya Vaishnav is ready to break the limitations of women power & moving ahead in the field of Art & Painting, As she won National competitions previously & she used the Covid time to explore her Artist skills & in coming time wish to show her presence across the Globe as an Artist!!!!