What kinds of paintings are there?

According to different standards, there are different categories of paintings?

1. According to the tools and materials used, it can be divided into Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, gouache painting, watercolor painting, pencil drawing, charcoal drawing and pen drawing.

2. According to the form of picture frame and the place of use, it can be divided into two categories: easel painting and mural painting.

3. According to the objects and contents depicted, it can be divided into religious paintings, historical paintings, military paintings, genre paintings, figure paintings, portraits, figure paintings, landscape paintings and still life paintings.

4. According to the use, it can be divided into New Year pictures, posters, movie advertisements, commercial advertisements, movie animations, decorative paintings, architectural paintings, ancient costume paintings, book illustrations, cartoons, stage art and movie art. ..

5. According to the cultural tradition and overall cultural characteristics, it can be divided into two systems: western painting and oriental painting.

Extended data:

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.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-painting