Painting always portrays real life incidents which make interesting subjects that deal with everyday happenings. The subjects of these paintings consist of people and people in groups. These reflect their social nature and interest in interactions. Thus, people in groups paintings narrate the story of their livelihood, occupation, leisure times and whereabouts. Many artists have contributed to the life of these paintings like Gustave Caillebotte, Jean Francois Millet, Edouard Manet, Raoul Dufy, Sir George Clausen and many more.

The paintings which portray people in groups not only use oil to brush colors, but every possible tool that helps to make a painting meaningful and lovely. This also consists of contemporary and abstract painting of people in groups that give it different and varied look which reflects specific artists’ tastes and likings. People thus become the significant part of the colorful art, painting.