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

Essence of painting

Main article: 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

• Art of Legend India.Com
• Outline of painting at Curlie