Types of Paintings

Paintings
25 Types of paintings
Painting is the art of splashing colours with the help of brushes in a certain
way to create an art.
Types of materials used for paintings as a base.
Paper, Sand, Clay, Wood, Ceramic, Canvas, Metals etc.
Painting is all about creativity, so artists do not restrict themselves to only

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Types of painting styles based on material:
 Oil painting
 Watercolor painting
 Pastel painting
 Acrylic painting
 Ink wash Painting
 Hot wax painting or Encaustic painting
 Spray Painting
 Fresco paintings - wall painting technique
 Gouache - opaque watercolor medium
 Enamel paintings
Modern Style Landscape
Abstract Art Expressionism
Conceptual Art Surrealism
Hyper realism Illusion
Whimsical painting
Pop Art Mural Painting
Futurism Street Art
Impressionism
Still life
Modern Art
1860 - 1970
The term is usually associated with art in which traditions were changed and
artists started with experimentation. Fresh ideas and new interpretation were
adopted. The most recent artists production is often called Contemporary art
or post modern art.
Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Henri
de Toulouse-Lautre pioneered the development of modern art.
Pre cubist Artist who revolutionized art world with wild, multi coloured
expressive landscapes and figure paintings, often this art is referred as
Fauvism.
Andre Derain, Raoul Defy, Jean Metzinger, Maurice De Vlaminck.
Cubism – 19th century- Pablo Picasso

The theory of using 3 solids: cube, sphere and cone.
Braque, Marcel Duchamp, Juan Gris: They developed the idea of cubism
and introduced different textures, collage elements and paper colle.
Important modern art exhibition and museums:

Belgium - Brazil
Columbia - Finland
France - Germany
India - Italy
Ireland - Mexico
USA - UK
Abstract Art
Abstract art used visual languages of shape, form, colour and line to create a
composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual
references in the world.
Western Art – From renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century.

Artist attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality.
By end of 19th century technology, science and philosophy influenced the
artists.
ABSTRACT
Geometric Lyrical Figurative Total

Abstraction Abstraction
- Robert Delaunay - Frame

- Fauvism - Henri Matisse
- Cubism - George Braque / Pablo Picasso
- Willem De Kooning - Dutch – American
Abstract Expressionism
Victor Vasarely - French
Jackson Pollock - American
Realism
- It is like a movement also known as ‘Naturalism’.
- The attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without any
artificiality
- and avoiding artistic conventions or implausible and supernatural
elements.
- Unembellished depiction of nature or contemporary life.
- Realism is an artistic movement that emerged in France in 1840.
- The movement aimed to focus on unidealized subject and events that
were not appreciated.
- Realism works depicted people of all classes in situations that arise in
ordinary life and reflected the changes brought by the industrial and
commercial revolution.
Visual Art
Hellenistic Greek Sculptures (17th century)
Cara Vaggio – The Dutch painter
Jose de Ribera
Diego Vela’zquez – Spanish Artist
Nain Brothers – French
- Gloomy earth toned palettes were used ------- beauty and idealization that
was typically found in art.
- Realism is widely regarded as the beginning of the modern art movement.
- Social realism.
- Romantic emotionalism.
- Gustave Combet – France (The Stone Breakers).
- Jean – Francois Millet (The Gleaners).
- The Potato Eaters – Vincent Van Gogh.
- James Whistler – Symphony in White.
- Thomas Eakins – The Gross Clinic.
- Gustave Combet
Jean – Francois Millet
Edouard Manet
James Whistler
- Social Realism
Ben Shahn
Isama Noguchi
Impressionist Art (Impressionism)

A style or movement in painting originating in France in 1860’s. A literary
style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve
accurate depiction.
Characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes.
Open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light into changing

qualities.
Human perception and experience portrayed along with unusual visual

angles.
Impressionism originated with group of individual Paris based artist, which

grew prominent and noticed in 1870’s -1880.
- Gustave Combet and Eugene Delacroix – French painter.
- Claude Monnet
- Eugene Boudin (Nature painter)
- Paul Ruben
- John Constable
- J. M. W. Turner - The Renoir impressionists.
- IMASTO – short, thick strokes of paint quickly capture the essence of the
subject rather than its details.
- Colours applied side by side with as little mixing as possible, a technique

that exploits the principle of simultaneous contrast to make the colour to
appeal more vivid to the viewer.
- Deep and dark tones created by mixing complementary colours.
- Pure impressionism avoid the use of black paint.
- Wet paint mixed or layered or placed into wet paint without waiting for
successive applications to dry, producing softer edges and intermingling of
colours.
- Impressionist painting do not exploit the transparency of thin paint films.

The colours seem to appear opaque.
- The base coat is applied white or any light coloured ground.
- The portrayal of natural light is emphasized. Close attention is paid to the

reflection of colours from object to object.
- Cobalt blue, viridian, cadmium yellow + ultramarine blue
Ceruleam blue.
Famous Impressionist Paintings.
- Impression, Sunrise – Claude Monet
- Luncheon of the Boating Party – Pierre – August Renoir
- The Boulevard Montmarte at night – Camille Pissarro.
Pop Art
An art movement that emerged in UK and USA during mid to late 1950.
The movement presented a challenge to the traditions of the Fine Art by

including imagery from popular and mass culture such as advertising/comic
books and mundane mass-produced cultural objects.
Breaking traditional painting norms and portraying animated /comic look to

the creation. A media based art .
Conceptual Art
Artists work for reference:
- Marcel Duchamp
- Yoko Ono
- Joseph Kosuth
- Jenny Holzer
- Lawrence Weiner
Referred to Conceptualism:
The art where the concept/idea takes precedence over the traditional
aesthetics and techniques of art.
Explanation:
The artists use a conceptual form of art planning and decisions made before
its execution (decision on how to work on the concept).
The idea takes the priority (Books- Conceptual Art – Tony Godfrey)
This art was done in the mid-1960s to 1970.
Marcel Duchamp – a French artist is the pioneer of this concept. His
painting “Fountain”, in 1917.
Erased De Kooning – a drawing by William De Kooning.
Aerostatic Sculpture – Yves Klein
Iron Curtain Work – Christo.
This form of art is more like an embodiment of 3D elements, colour and

concepts.
A very vague, different and infinite kind of art, objective in nature.
Students need to study the work of Yves Klein and Marcel Duchamp.

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Paintings

Types of materials used for paintings as a base.

Paper, Sand, Clay, Wood, Ceramic, Canvas, Metals etc.

Painting is all about creativity, so artists do not restrict themselves to only

Cubism – 19th century- Pablo Picasso

Important modern art exhibition and museums:

Western Art – From renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century.

Geometric Lyrical Figurative Total

- Robert Delaunay - Frame

Impressionist Art (Impressionism)

Characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes.

Open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light into changing

Human perception and experience portrayed along with unusual visual

Impressionism originated with group of individual Paris based artist, which

- Eugene Boudin (Nature painter)

- J. M. W. Turner - The Renoir impressionists.

- Colours applied side by side with as little mixing as possible, a technique

- Deep and dark tones created by mixing complementary colours.

- Pure impressionism avoid the use of black paint.

- Impressionist painting do not exploit the transparency of thin paint films.

- The base coat is applied white or any light coloured ground.

- The portrayal of natural light is emphasized. Close attention is paid to the

Famous Impressionist Paintings.

- Impression, Sunrise – Claude Monet

- Luncheon of the Boating Party – Pierre – August Renoir

- The Boulevard Montmarte at night – Camille Pissarro.

The movement presented a challenge to the traditions of the Fine Art by

Breaking traditional painting norms and portraying animated /comic look to

This form of art is more like an embodiment of 3D elements, colour and

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