The definition of painting

As a kind of plastic arts, painting is a form of capturing, recording and expressing different creative purposes. On the technical level, painting is a practice of taking a surface as a supporting surface and then adding colors to it. These surfaces can be paper, cloth, wood, glass, paint or concrete. Tools for adding color can be painted with brushes, brushes, sponges, cloth strips, etc. , you can also use the software. On the level of artistic language, the meaning of painting also includes the use of this artistic behavior plus aesthetic methods such as graphics and composition to achieve the ideas and meanings that the painter wants to express.

2. In medieval Europe, painting is often called "the art of monkeys", because just as monkeys like to imitate human activities, painting also imitates scenes. Before the 20th century, the more realistic the painting was, the higher the technology was. But after entering the 20th century, with the appearance and development of photography technology, painting began to turn to the direction of expressing the painter's subjective self.

3. The types of painting are ink painting, oil painting, mural painting, cartoon, printmaking, freehand painting, meticulous painting, gouache painting, turquoise landscape painting, ink landscape painting, line drawing, inner painting, finger painting, boundary painting, abstract painting, sketch and so on.