The Popularity of Painting

Painting is widely regarded as the most popular artistic medium and is the one that most people associate with the practice of visual art. Discuss why this might be. Why not sculpture or architecture? Is there one medium within the painting, for example, oil paint, or tempera, that most represents this phenomenon? Include a description of Raphael’s, The School of Athens, 1510-11. As part of this discussion give a brief description of this painting in correlation with our discussion topic this week.

· 300-word count

· Cite three or more academic sources.

· It must be written in your own words.