How many kinds of paintings are there?

There are two types of paintings. There are oriental paintings developed from ancient eastern civilizations such as ancient Egypt and China, and western paintings with Europe as the center developed from ancient Greece and Rome.

These two painting systems have influenced each other in history and made their own unique and important contributions to human civilization. The plasticity of painting itself determines that it has great creative freedom, which can not only express the real space world, but also express the imaginary world beyond time and space.

Painters can express their unique feelings and understanding of life and ideals through painting. Because painting is a kind of visual static art, they can appreciate, ponder and experience the aesthetic form and content in painting for a long time, so it is the most acceptable and favorite art for people.

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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. Painting is a form of capturing, recording and expressing different creative purposes, and the number of participants is also huge. The nature of painting can be natural or concrete (such as still life or landscape painting), photographic painting and abstract painting.

Freehand brushwork depicts the shape and spirit of an object with concise and unrestrained pen and ink, and expresses the author's feelings. Freehand brushwork painting uses generalization, exaggeration and rich association in the object of expression. Although the pen is simple, it has far-reaching artistic conception and certain expressive force. It is necessary to have high generalization ability, implicit artistic conception that less wins more, accurate pen use, skillful and handy pen handling. These two styles of painting have existed since the Tang Dynasty.

Some people are in between. They are engaged in writing. For example, in a painting, loose lines are freehand brushwork, pavilions and pavilions are meticulous brushwork, so that when the two are combined, the skills of using pen, ink and color can be exerted. According to the process of world culture and art, China's paintings refer to China traditional paintings in a broad sense, China traditional paintings in a narrow sense are independent of each other, and China traditional paintings in a broad sense are integrated with western art, mainly in the significant difference between artistic conception and picture implication.

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. Painting is a form of capturing, recording and expressing different creative purposes, and the number of participants is also huge.

The nature of painting can be natural and symbolic (such as still life or landscape painting), photographic painting, abstract painting, narrative, symbol, emotion or politics.

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