Painting as an artistic method is declared dead at regular intervals. But painting stubbornly remains on the parnassus. During a radical period not so long ago, they even removed brushes, palettes and easels from art school studios so that no one would be tempted to start painting.  But the desire to paint remained and today one cannot complain about the availability of painters.  The most common technique is acrylic, a modern technique that began to be used by American artists in the late forties and came to Europe in the sixties.