How many types of painting are there?

There are 16 types of painting and drawing:

1. Ink Painting

Ink Painting (Chinese Brush Painting) is a painting made from water and ink by blending the concentration of water and ink, a form of painting, more often than not, ink painting is regarded as a representative of traditional Chinese painting, also known as Chinese painting. It is also known as Guohua, Chinese painting. Ink and wash painting is representative of Chinese painting, or "national painting" in the narrower sense, and has spread to other parts of East Asia.

2, oil painting

Oil painting (an oil painting; a painting in oils), is to use fast-drying vegetable oils (linseed oil, poppy oil, walnut oil, etc.) and pigments, in the canvas on linen, cardboard or board for the production of a painting. The diluents used in painting are volatile turpentine and dry linseed oil.

3, printmaking

Print (print) is an important category of visual art. Broadly defined prints can include in the printing industry before the printing of graphics generally have the nature of prints. Contemporary concept of printmaking mainly refers to the artist's conception and creation and through the plate making and printing procedures and the production of works of art, specifically, the knife or chemicals, etc. in the wood, stone, linen, copper, zinc and other plates carved or etched after the printing of the picture.

4, gouache painting

Gouache painting, is a picture depicted with water blended with powdered pigments. Gouache color is generally opaque, has a strong ability to cover, can be deep and detailed carving. Properly used, it can combine the artistic effects of both the thick oil painting and the bright watercolor painting.

5, caricature

Caricature is one of the types of painting, also known as satire. The word high-speed painting comes from the Italian Caricare, meaning exaggeration, and later evolved to exclusively refer to the ironic and comical meaning of the drawings, that is, the word Caricature. By means of exaggeration, distortion, assumption, metaphor, symbol and other techniques, it expresses, satirizes, criticizes (or glorifies) people and things in real life with humorous, funny and witty artistic effects.

In addition, there are gouache painting, fresco painting, brush painting, brush painting, abstract painting, green landscape painting, ink and wash, landscape painting, white painting, finger painting, boundary painting, interior painting, and sketching.

Expanded Information:

Drawing or Painting is, on the Technically, it is the practice of using a surface as a support and adding color to it. Those surfaces can be paper or cloth, and the tools used to add color can be paintbrushes, brushes, sponges, or strips of cloth.

The meaning of painting, in the context of artistic terms, also includes the use of this artistic act together with graphic, compositional and other aesthetic methods to achieve the concepts and meanings that the artist wishes to express.

Chinese painting is divided into two disciplines: brush painting and brush painting, or both. These three different forms of expression, brushwork painting with neat and meticulous, color rendering layer by layer, details into the subtle, to be extremely delicate brush strokes, depicting objects. In the case of freehand painting, the brush and ink are concise, bold and spontaneous, depicting the form and spirit of the object and expressing the author's feelings.

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