What kinds of painting can be divided into, that is to say, what kinds can be divided into?

Painting is not only rich in types and forms, but also has obvious differences in artistic forms, means of expression and artistic styles among different countries and nations due to different social, political, economic and cultural traditions. It is generally believed that oriental painting developed from ancient Egyptian, Persian, Indian, China and other oriental civilizations and western painting with Europe as the center developed from ancient Greek and Roman paintings are the two most important painting systems in the world.

It can be divided into Chinese painting, western painting, oil painting, printmaking, watercolor painting, gouache painting, sketch, sketch and so on. Some of these paintings can be divided into many styles because of the different materials, tools or expressions used. For example, Chinese painting can be divided into mural painting and scroll painting. In terms of performance characteristics, it can be divided into. Meticulous painting, freehand brushwork and concurrent writing; Prints can be divided into: woodcut, copperplate, lithograph, silk-leaking print, offset printing, etc. Among them, woodcuts can be divided into black and white woodcuts and color woodcuts. Due to the different production techniques of woodcuts, there are watermark woodcuts and mimeographed woodcuts.

Generally speaking, painting is divided into portrait painting, genre painting, historical painting, landscape painting and still life painting. Similarly, these kinds of paintings are not limited to one kind of materials and tools, that is, oil paintings can draw portraits, genre paintings, historical paintings, landscape paintings and still life paintings, and most other paintings can also be used to draw the above paintings. In addition to the above methods, Chinese paintings with a long tradition can also be divided into "hand scroll", "hanging axis" and "picture album" according to their unique mounting forms.