Types, genres and technique of painting.

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Types, genres and technique of painting

Painting is one of types of art, alongside music, ballet, opera, sculpture, and architecture. There are several types of painting:

1. Easel - painting: Any ordinary picture, which can be easily removed from one place to another place and hung on a suitable wall, can be referred to easel painting. The name of easel painting comes from easel, on which

pictures are painted.

1. Monumental painting is designed for certain parts of by building walls, ceilings, sometimes even floors.

1. Miniature painting is a special branch of painting. Its main peculiarity is a small size of its works, beautifully coloured cossets, brooches, powder-boxes and cigarette cases. They are remarkable for their exquisite details. There are such genres in painting as:

1. Ordinary life painting tells us about the labour, rest joy and troubles, misfortunes and successes of common people. It reflects the problems worrying us.

1. Historical painting depicts the people’s past - both important events as well as common life episodes. (Surikov, Verestchagin, Gerasimov, etc)

1. Portrait painting - is the depiction of some individual persons. Its aim is to fix not only the outer appearance but also to reflect the internal world of a man or a group of people - a group portrait. (Kramskoy, etc.)

1. Landscape painting - is the depiction of nature. (Levitan, Vasilyev, Savrasov, Kurpin, Chuykov), Constable - in England, Picasso in France.

1. Still life painting - is the depiction of every day things, dishes, foods and foodstuff, fruit, vegetables, flowers. Still life teaches us to value nature and every natural thing, no matter how small and unimportant it for us. (Mashkov, Kontchalovsky)

1. Battle painting - is the depiction of the war scenes. This painting is closely connected with the historical painting. (Vereshagin)

1. A mythological painting - played a very important role in the past, when people’s knowledge of nature and the world was limited and they made up legends about powerful mysterious creatures, both kind and evil. (Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Bottichelli and others).