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3 Painting supports

• Paper
• Canvas
• Panel
• Mural (Walls)

4 Painting media

The medium is the vehicle that the pigment is suspended or embedded in. There is a certain amount of overlap in painting with media usually used in drawing as well.

Examples include:

• Oil, including the newer water-miscible oils
• Heat-set oils
• Acrylic
• Gouache
• Ink
• Pastel, including dry pastels, oil pastels, and pastel pencils
• Tempera
• Encaustic (wax)
• Watercolor
• Fresco
• Spray paint ( Graffiti)

5 Popular painting styles

'Style' is used in two senses:

Individual style can refer to the distinctive visual elements, techniques and methods that typify a single mature artist's work. 'Style' can also refer to the movement or school that an artist is associated with. Additionally, this can stem from an actual group that the artist was consciously involved with or it can be a category in which art historians have placed the painter.

The word 'style' has fallen out of favour in discussions about contemporary painting, though it continues to be used in popular contexts.

• Realism
• Impressionism
• Pointillism
• Naive art
• Cubism
• Modernism
• Abstract
• Postmodernism
• Constructivism
• Hard-edge
• Graffiti

6 Common painting idioms

Painting idioms include:

• Allegory
• Bodegon
• Botanical
• Figure painting
• Illustration
• Industrial
• Landscape
• Portrait
• Still Life
• War

A proposed and yet-unrealised development in painting is four dimensional painting.

7 List of painters

Here is a growing list of painters too big for this page, see also Painters.

Shortcuts to highly popular painters:

• Paul Cézanne, ( 1839- 1906), French artist
• Salvador Dalí, ( 1904- 1989), Catalan artist
• Vincent van Gogh ( 1853- 1890)
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, ( 1475- 1564), Italian sculptor and painter
• Amedeo Modigliani, ( 1884- 1920), Italian sculptor and painter
• Claude Monet, ( 1840- 1926), French impressionist painter
• Pablo Picasso, ( 1881- 1973), Spanish cubist artist
• Jackson Pollock, ( 1912- 1956), US abstract expressionist painter
• Rembrandt, ( 1606- 1669), Dutch painter
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ( 1841- 1919), French impressionist painter
• Peter Paul Rubens, ( 1577- 1640), Belgian painter
• Leonardo da Vinci, ( 1452- 1519), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor

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