What kinds of paintings are there?

Painting can be divided into four categories: figure painting, landscape painting, still life painting and animal painting.

As far as China is concerned, there are two macro categories: Chinese painting and western painting. Chinese painting is divided into two parts: writing on behalf of work, small freehand brushwork and big freehand brushwork. Western painting can be divided into sketch, watercolor, gouache, oil painting, acrylic painting, colored lead painting, chalk painting, crayon drawing and ink painting, and now a third category, animation, can be added.

The meticulous brushwork of Chinese painting is the foundation, and dilution is the most complicated. Freehand brushwork seems simple, but it requires profound artistic accomplishment and years of skill. Western painting sketch is the foundation, and different painting methods have different technical requirements. It doesn't matter whether it is difficult or not. It is a progressive level, but also simple, children's stick figure, animation.

Computer painting and hand drawing. There are mainly paper-cutting, woodcut, shadow carving, sculpture, pencil drawing, pen drawing, watercolor painting, gouache painting, Chinese painting, ink painting, oil painting, acrylic painting, physical postmodern painting and so on.

Painting is the art of copying nature by hand on a two-dimensional plane. In medieval Europe, painting was often called "the art of monkeys" because painting imitated scenes, just as monkeys liked to imitate human activities.

Before the 20th century, the more realistic the painting, the higher the technology. But in the 20th century, with the appearance and development of photography technology, painting began to turn to express the painter's subjective self. When a connoisseur sees a painting, he sometimes can't tell what it is, but he can definitely tell who painted it.

Every painter began to form his own unique style. Different painters have different styles and values. At the beginning of the 20th century, some painters' painting styles were ignored or even degraded because critics could not accept them, which is why some painters painted very well but were not famous and even starved to death because of poverty.