1. Painting is the art of copying nature by hand on a two-dimensional plane. In medieval Europe, painting was often called "the art of monkeys", because just as monkeys liked to imitate human activities, painting also imitated scenes.
Second, painting is the crystallization of creation in people's lives. Painting has a long history and rich connotations. "There is a poem in the painting, and there is a picture in the poem". In ancient China, poetry and painting were inseparable. Paintings also reflect the author's emotions and thoughts. Painting often contains artists' strong thoughts and feelings, so art is often nurtured in painting.
3. Chinese painting (Chinese painting): China silk painting and China Chinese painting (including ancient Chinese paintings such as landscape painting, flower-and-bird painting and figure painting, modern Chinese painting of realistic Chinese painting and freehand Chinese painting, and contemporary abstract Chinese painting of China flowing art). Others include: stone relief paintings, interior decoration paintings, Dunhuang murals and China abstract oil paintings.
Oil painting is a kind of painting with quick-drying vegetable oil (linseed oil, poppy seed oil, walnut oil, etc.). ) mixed pigments, made on canvas, linen, cardboard or wood. Diluents used in paint are volatile turpentine and dry linseed oil. The pigment attached to the picture has strong hardness and can keep luster for a long time after the picture is dried. With the hiding power and transparency of the pigment, the painted object is vividly displayed, with rich colors and strong three-dimensional sense. Oil painting is one of the main types of western painting.
Embroidery painting refers to various decorative patterns embroidered on fabrics with needle and thread. It is a decorative fabric with stitch patterns formed by puncturing silk thread or other fibers and yarns on embroidery materials with certain patterns and colors with needles. This is an art of adding people's design and production to any existing fabric with needles and threads. Embroidery is one of the traditional folk handicrafts in China, which has a history of at least two or three thousand years in China. Chinese embroidery mainly includes Su embroidery, Xiang embroidery, Shu embroidery and Yue embroidery.
Before the 20th century, the more realistic the painting was, the higher the technology was. But in the 20th century, with the appearance and development of photography technology, painting began to turn to express the painter's subjective self. When you see a painting connoisseur, sometimes you can't tell what it is, but you can definitely tell who painted it. Every painter began to form his own unique style.