There are several kinds of art paintings

Chinese painting for short. It refers to the Chinese national painting which has been formed and developed on the soil of the Chinese nation for a long time, and has become a unique system in the field of art in the world. It is painted with brushes, ink and Chinese pigments on special rice paper or silk. According to the theme of expression, it can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and bamboo, birds, animals, bugs and fish, palaces and other painting materials. According to the means of expression and technique, can be divided into brushwork, writing, hook, bone, color, ink and other painting methods. According to the style of format, it can be divided into vertical scrolls, horizontal scrolls, album pages, fans and other styles. Chinese painting attaches great importance to ink and brush, using lines, ink and light color, through the hook chapped and dotted, wet and dry and thick and light, to express the structure of the objective object, yin and yang back and forth; and the use of the combination of reality and sparseness and "white" and other techniques to achieve the effect of a clever composition. The spatial treatment of Chinese painting is also relatively free and flexible, i.e., one can use the method of "viewing the small with the big" to paint the mountains; one can also use the method of "viewing the mountains with the horse" to paint the Yangtze River. Chinese paintings are not only about "both form and spirit" and "vividness", they not only advocate to "learn from the outside", but also "get the source of the heart", Chinese painting in the picture. "

Chinese paintings are also inscribed with poems on the screen and stamped with seals, integrating poems, calligraphy and seal cutting into one.

Western painting

Refers to the Western painting that is distinguished from the traditional Chinese painting system, referred to as Western painting. It includes oil painting, watercolor, gouache, printmaking, pencil drawing, pencil drawing and many other types of painting. Traditional Western painting focuses on realism, using perspective and chiaroscuro to express the volume, texture and spatiality of objects, and requires the expression of the color effects presented by objects illuminated by a certain light source.

Oil painting

Easy to oil (linseed oil, poppy oil, walnut oil, etc.) mixed with pigments, on linen, cardboard or board for the production of a type of painting. The diluents used in painting are the hair-raising turpentine and dry linseed oil. The pigments attached to the picture have a strong hardness, and when the picture dries, it can keep its luster for a long time. Oil painting is the main type of Western painting.

Sculpture

"Plastic arts" of a kind. It is a general term for the three methods of carving, sculpting and molding. With a variety of moldable clay or can be carved wood, stone and other materials, to produce a variety of real volume of the image. Sculpture is generally divided into two kinds of round, relief. Because of the different uses, also divided into shelf sculpture, monumental sculpture, decorative sculpture, architectural sculpture and so on.

Crafts

One of the categories of fine arts. Refers to the production of crafts with a certain fine arts meaning, both to meet the needs of people's material life, but also to meet the needs of people's spiritual life, is a combination of practical and aesthetic, technical and artistic unity. Arts and crafts are divided into two categories: ① daily craft. ② furnishing craft.

Calligraphy

①A traditional Chinese art. ② A method of writing Chinese characters. Chinese Calligraphy is based on the rules of modeling Chinese characters, using dots and strokes to form various forms to express the meaning. There are various styles of calligraphy, such as Regular (Kai), Cursive, Running, Clerical, and Seal (Big Seal and Little Seal). The basic element of the beauty of calligraphy is the dots and strokes, followed by the form composed of the dots and strokes. Therefore, the use of brushwork in calligraphy is crucial, it is the mastery and utilization of the contradictory relationships such as lifting and pressing, hiding and revealing, turning and twisting, lightness and heaviness, slow and urgent, square and round, etc., and it must be careful to avoid the slippery and thin fingers. In terms of the piece, the beauty of calligraphy lies in the momentum between the lines, rhythm, rhyme and its conveyed mood of interest. Various styles of calligraphy are concerned about the structure of the horizontal and straight arrangement, look forward and echo; layout of the appropriate sparse and dense, the beginning and end of the coherent.

Drawing

A form of drawing that uses monochrome lines and blocks to represent objects. It is often used as a means of practicing the basic skills of drawing, in order to train the ability to observe and express the form, structure, light and darkness, texture, volume and spatial sense of objective objects. Sketching can also be used as an independent art form for creative work. Painter Wang Shikou's work "Blood Clothes" is one example.

Gouache painting

Painting with powdered pigments mixed with water. Gouache colors are generally opaque and have a strong covering ability, allowing for deep and detailed painting. Properly used, it can combine the artistic effects of both oil painting and watercolor painting.

Mural

Painted on the walls or ceilings of buildings. Divided into rough bottom frescoes, brush bottom frescoes and mounted frescoes. Fresco is one of the oldest forms of painting, Egypt, India, Babylon preserved a lot of ancient frescoes, the Italian Renaissance, fresco creation is very prosperous, produced many famous works. China since the Zhou Dynasty, successive generations of palaces and even tombs are decorated with frescoes system; with the flourishing of religious beliefs, and widely used in temples, grottoes (for example, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Ruicheng Yongle Palace, and so far a large number of preserved the remains of the famous Buddhist frescoes and Taoist frescoes.)

Caricature

One of the types of painting, also known as satire. The word high-speed painting comes from the Italian word Caricare, meaning exaggeration, which later evolved into the term Caricature that specifically refers to drawings with satirical and comical meanings. By means of exaggeration, distortion, assumption, metaphor, symbolism and other techniques, it satirizes and criticizes (or sings

glorifies) people and things in real life with humorous, funny and witty artistic effects.

Sketching

The traditional term for Chinese painting. Paintings depicting flowers, wood, birds, animals and other creatures are called sketching. For example, Huang Chyuan's "Drawing of Rare Birds in Sketching" from the Fifth Dynasty. In the usual modern terminology of painting, any direct depiction of a physical object or scene as an object is collectively referred to as sketching.

Sketching

A painting method that involves rapid and accurate observation, the use of concise lines, and the concise depiction of an object's demeanor, form, movement, and other characteristics. It is an important means of painting to cultivate a keen observation and the ability to quickly grasp the characteristics of the object, and is also an important means of recording life and accumulating creative materials.