List of basic painting topics

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

Contents 1 Essence of painting 2 Types of painting 3 History of painting 4 Basic painting concepts 5 Famous painters 6 Painting lists 7 See also 8 External links

[edit] Essence of painting

Main article: Painting

[edit] Types of painting

[edit] History of painting

Main article: History of painting

[edit] 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 –

[edit] 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

[edit] Painting lists

Main article: List of painting topics

[edit] See also

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[edit] External links

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