Outline of painting

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A painting is a mode of expression in which paint or other medium is applied to a surface, and in which area and composition are two primary considerations. The art of painting is the act of creating paintings.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the art of painting:

Contents 1 Essence of painting 2 Types of painting 3 Styles of painting 4 History of painting 5 General painting concepts 6 Famous painters 7 Painting lists 8 See also 9 External links

[edit] Essence of painting

[edit] Types of painting

[edit] Styles of painting

[edit] History of painting

[edit] General 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

Art techniques and materials

[edit] External links

• Outline of painting at the Open Directory Project

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