A detailed classification of all paintings

Painting is divided into Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, watercolor painting, gouache painting and other main painting types according to the different tool materials and techniques. Chinese painting is divided into meticulous and freehand brushwork according to the meticulous and extensive techniques. Prints can be divided into woodcuts, copperplate prints, paper prints, lithographs, screen prints, etc. Prints are also classified according to plate-making methods and color printing techniques, such as etched prints, mimeographed woodcuts, watermark woodcuts, black-and-white prints and color prints.

The above kinds of paintings can be divided into figure painting, landscape painting and still life painting according to the different objects depicted. Figure painting can be divided into portrait painting, historical painting, religious painting, genre painting, military painting and figure painting according to the different content of depicting subject matter. The Classification of China's Paintings: The Viewpoint of the Ancient Painting Branch in China

This picture is divided into ten doors. Chinese painting is divided into six branches, namely, figures, houses, landscapes, pommel horses, ghosts and gods, flowers and birds, etc. The painting spectrum of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty is divided into ten branches, namely, Taoism and Buddhism, figures, palaces, model people, arowana, landscapes, birds and beasts, flowers and trees, ink bamboo, fruits and vegetables, etc. Deng Chun's Painting with the Southern Song Dynasty is divided into eight categories (doors), namely, immortals, buddhas, ghosts and gods, biographies of people, landscapes, forests and stones, flowers, bamboo feathers, animals, insects and fish, houses, trees, boats and cars, melons and fruits, vegetables and grasses, and small miscellaneous paintings. There were "Thirteen Paintings" in Yuan Dynasty, but their contents were quite complicated, so they should not be used as classification standards.

On the Classification of Contemporary Chinese Painting

Contemporary Chinese painting has its own system in the world art field. According to its subject matter and object of expression, it can be roughly divided into figure painting, landscape painting, flower-and-bird painting, boundary painting, flowers, fruits, feathers, animals, insects, fish and so on. According to the methods of expression, there are techniques such as meticulous brushwork, freehand brushwork, sketching, color setting and ink painting, and color setting can be divided into jade, turquoise, boneless, splash color, light color and light crimson. Mainly use the changes of lines and ink color to describe the image and business place with hook, dot, dye, thick, light, dry, wet, yin, yang, direction, back, virtual, real, sparse, dense and empty; View layout, wide field of vision, not limited to focus perspective; According to the forms of expression, there are murals, screens, scrolls, picture books, fans and other frame forms, supplemented by traditional mounting techniques. According to the materials and methods of expression, it can be subdivided into ink painting, heavy color, light crimson, meticulous painting, freehand brushwork and line drawing. There are various forms of Chinese painting, such as long scrolls (also known as hand scrolls) and horizontal curtains, banners and nave, album pages and bucket squares, folding fans and round fans painted on fans.

Western painting refers to the western painting which is different from the traditional painting system in China. Including oil painting, watercolor painting, gouache painting, printmaking, sketch, sketch and other paintings.