Main Types of Western Painting

The term refers to Western painting as distinguished from the traditional Chinese painting system, or Western painting for short. 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.