Topic outline of painting

Topic outline of painting

:"For a more comprehensive list, see the List of painting topics."

A "painting" is a work of art that consists of paint on a surface in the form of a picture or design. The art of painting is the act of creating paintings.

The following topic outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to the art of painting:

Essence of painting

: "Main article: Painting"

Types of painting

History of painting

: "Main article: History of painting"

Basic painting concepts

Abstraction –
Academy –
Acrylic paint –
Airbrush –
Altarpiece –
Appreciation –
Aquarelle –
Atmospheric perspective –

Bloom –
Body –
Brush –

Canvas –
Chiaroscuro –
Color –
Color theory – (hue, tint, tone, value)
Crayon –

Drawing –
Drying oil –

Easel –
Egg tempera –
Encaustic –

Fresco –
Frottage –

Gesso –
Glair –
Glaze –
Gouache –
Ground –

Hard-edge painting –
Hierarchy of genres –
History painting –

Imagery –
Impasto –
Imprimatura –
Ink –

Key –

Landscape –
Line –

Maulstick –
Mastic –
Mineral spirits –
Model –

Oil painting –

Paint –
Painter –
Painterly –
Panel painting –
Pastel –
Palette –
Palette knife –
Pencil crayon –
Perspective –
Photorealism –
Pigment –
Plasticity –
Portrait –
Preservation –

Realism –

Salon –
Sfumato –
Shading –
Sketch –
Solvent –
Spatial organization –
Still life –
Surface –

Tempera –
Texture –
Turpentine –

Underpainting –

Valuing –
Varnish –
Veduta –

Wash –
Watercolor –

Famous painters

* Giotto di Bondone
* Jan van Eyck
* Leonardo da Vinci
* Raphael
* Titian
* Peter Paul Rubens
* Diego Velázquez
* Rembrandt
* Edgar Degas
* Paul Cézanne
* Vincent van Gogh
* Henri Matisse
* Pablo Picasso
* Jackson Pollock
* Gerhard Richter

Painting lists

: "Main article: List of painting topics"

See also

Art techniques and materials

External links

*dmoz|Arts/Visual_Arts/Painting/


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