There are different categories of painting according to different standards?
1. According to the tools and materials used, it can be divided into Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, gouache painting, watercolor painting, pencil painting, charcoal painting, and pen painting.
2. According to the form of the frame and the place of use, it can be divided into two categories: easel painting and mural painting.
3. According to the objects depicted and the content of the expression, it can be divided into religious paintings, historical paintings, military paintings, genre paintings, figure paintings, portrait paintings, human body paintings, landscape paintings, and still life paintings.
4. According to their uses, they can be divided into New Year paintings, promotional paintings, movie advertising paintings, commercial advertising paintings, movie animations, decorative paintings, architectural paintings, clothing paintings, book illustrations, comics, stage art, and film art. .
5. If divided by cultural tradition and overall cultural style, it can be divided into two major systems: Western painting and Oriental painting.
Extended information:
Painting is an art of manually copying nature on a two-dimensional plane. In medieval Europe, painting was often called "monkey art" , because paintings imitate scenes just as monkeys like to imitate human activities.
Before the 20th century, the more realistic the painting imitated, the more advanced the technique. However, in the 20th century, with the emergence and development of photography technology, painting began to turn to the direction of expressing the painter's subjective self. Connoisseurs sometimes cannot tell what the painting is, but they can definitely tell who painted it.
Each painter began to develop his own unique style. Different painters have different styles and have different values. At the beginning of the 20th century, some painters' styles were ignored or even belittled because critics could not accept them. This is why some painters painted very well but were not famous, or even starved to death due to poverty.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia—Painting