What are the major categories of fine arts?

Fine arts can be divided into eight categories: Chinese painting, abstract Chinese painting, finger painting, oil painting, hand painting, printmaking, interior painting and sculpture.

1. Chinese painting: The traditional painting form of the Han nationality is to dip a brush in water, ink and color to draw on silk or paper. This kind of painting is called Chinese painting, which was produced after the May 4th Movement compared with western painting, also known as Chinese painting. China's traditional painting (generally refers to China's national painting, which has been formed and developed on the soil of China nationalities for a long time and has its own unique system in the world art field. Its spiritual core is "pen and ink". It uses brush, ink and Chinese painting pigments to paint on special Xuan paper or silk.

2. Abstract Chinese painting: China's abstract Chinese painting is a modern Chinese painting in China's paintings. The Fujian art training teacher told everyone that it must have the most important characteristics of China cultural elements, and it is the inheritance, development and sublimation of the traditional China Chinese painting art. At the same time, this art of abstract Chinese painting in China, which comes from the "ancient" and has profound artistic conception, puts forward higher artistic requirements for traditional China painters who are really engaged in "painting art".

3. Finger painting: Finger painting, also known as finger painting, has a history of more than 3 years, and is a sideline of China traditional painting. Finger painting, generally do not use or rarely use a brush. The founder recorded in the history books is Gao Qipei in the Kangxi period in the early Qing Dynasty. In the future, more and more people painted finger paintings, among which Pan Tianshou was the outstanding one. His finger painting is broad and profound, and the pattern is novel and elegant.

4. Oil painting: Oil painting is the main kind of western painting. A kind of painting made on linen, cardboard or wood with pigments that can be easily mixed with oil. Diluents used in painting are turpentine and dry linseed oil. The pigment attached to the picture has strong hardness and rich color, which can fully show the color change of the object and is very realistic. When the picture is dry, it can keep luster for a long time. The teacher of Fujian Fine Arts Training School told everyone that oil painting generally emphasizes shape, reproduction and rationality, and uses knowledge such as focus perspective and anatomy to shape the image.

5. Hand painting: also called hand painting or graffiti. It should be regarded as a new line in China in recent years, such as hand-painted shoes, hand-painted T-shirts, humanoid pillows, hand-painted wallets, etc., which are the main hand-painted objects. Hand-painting means that on the basis of the original solid color items, according to the product styles, fabrics and customers' hobbies, the painter draws exquisite and personalized pictures on the vamp with special hand-painted pigments, which will not affect the usability of the product, but also increase its visibility.

6. printmaking: printmaking in a broad sense can include that the graphics printed before printing industrialization are generally printmaking. The concept of contemporary printmaking mainly refers to artistic works conceived and created by artists and produced through plate-making and printing procedures, specifically, pictures carved or etched on wood, stone, hemp, copper, zinc and other pages with knives or chemicals. The art of printmaking has been accompanied by the invention and development of printing technology. The teacher of Fujian Fine Arts School told everyone that ancient printmaking mainly refers to woodcut, and there are also a few copperplate engravings and overprinter.

7. Internal painting: Internal painting is a unique traditional craft in China, which originated from painting snuff bottles. The painting method of internal painting is to hand-draw a detailed picture in a pot blank made of glass, crystal, amber and other materials with a special deformation fine pen, which is elegant in style and exquisite in brushwork. The art of internal painting is divided into four schools: Beijing, Hebei, Shandong and Guangdong. Among them, the internal painting of Hebei School has the highest level, the largest scale, the fastest development and the greatest influence, and it has been selected into the national intangible cultural heritage protection list not long ago.

8. Sculpture: Sculpture is a kind of "plastic arts", and it is the general name of artistic images created by three production methods: carving, engraving and plastic. With all kinds of plastic clay or carved wood, stone and other materials, all kinds of images with real volume are made, and the expression methods generally rely on volume and structure. The teacher of Fujian Fine Arts Training School told everyone that sculpture is generally divided into two types: round sculpture and relief sculpture. Due to different purposes, it is also divided into easel sculpture, memorial sculpture, decorative sculpture, architectural sculpture and so on.