What are the categories of art (painting)?

It can be divided into Chinese 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. Chinese painting can be divided into mural painting and scroll painting. From the performance characteristics, it can be divided into three types: meticulous brushwork, freehand brushwork and concurrent brushwork. Prints can also be divided into: woodcuts, copperplate prints, lithographs, silk-leaking prints, offset prints and so on. 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.

From the social function and manifestation of painting, it is customarily divided into posters, New Year pictures, cartoons, comic books, group paintings and illustrations.

Generally speaking, painting can be divided into portrait painting, genre painting, historical painting, landscape painting and still life painting.

Of course, there are other classifications and subdivisions, depending on your understanding of the art part of art.