Fine arts mainly include painting, sculpture, crafts, architecture, calligraphy, seal cutting, design, new media and photography. Each category can be further divided into several subcategories according to the subject matter of the performance and the subject matter used.
Painting is the most important art form in plastic arts. It refers to the use of artistic languages ??such as lines, colors and shapes, and artistic means such as shape, color and composition to create paintings in two-dimensional space (i.e. plane ) to create a static visual image to express the author's aesthetic feelings. There are many types of paintings, which can be divided into different categories from different perspectives. From the perspective of region, painting can be divided into Eastern painting and Western painting; from the perspective of tools and materials, painting can be divided into ink painting, oil painting, mural, printmaking, watercolor painting, gouache painting, etc.; from the perspective of subject matter and content, painting can be divided into figure painting and landscape painting. , still life paintings, animal paintings, etc.; from the form of works, paintings can be divided into murals, New Year pictures, comics, comics, propaganda posters, oil paintings, blow paintings, illustrations, etc.
Different types of painting forms have their own unique expressions and aesthetic characteristics due to their different historical traditions. Chinese painting, also known as Chinese painting, has its own system and unique characteristics in the field of world painting, and is the mainstream of the oriental painting system. In terms of tools and materials, Chinese painting uses brushes and ink to paint on rice paper and silk. It pays attention to pen and ink and focuses on using pen and ink to create shapes. In terms of expression method, Chinese painting adopts a scattered perspective method; in terms of composition of the picture, Chinese painting pays attention to the complementarity of poetry, calligraphy, painting and sealing, forming a unique beauty of form and content. Oil painting is the representative of Western painting, and it is the most influential type of painting in the world.