Painters are people who, either for a vocation or a hobby, apply paint (or other color and pigmentation) to any type of surface, whether the surface is a canvas, wall, piece of paper, slab of wood, piece of clay, concrete, lacquer or anything else suitable. Painters generally paint as a form of artistic expression, and there are many different types of paintings to choose from, including composition, abstraction and drawing.
Types
Painters have historically painted in different types of styles. Some popular painting styles for painters include baroque, art deco, abstract expressionism, constructivism, color field, impressionism, neo-classicism, romanticism, tonalism, realism, mannerism, fauvism and hard-edge.
Painters' Media
There are different painting medias that painters can use. Some common paints include watercolor, acrylic, fresco, enamel paint, tempera, oil pastel, oil, dry pastel, gouache, ink, spray paint, graffiti, encaustic (or wax) and oil paints that are water miscible.
Notable Painters
Famous and notable painters throughout history have individually impacted the art world. These painters include Leonardo da Vinci, Salvador Dali, Claude Monet, Frida Kahlo, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, Henri Matisse and Andy Warhol.
Museums
Works by the world's most famous painters can be viewed on display at the most respected museums on the planet, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Louvre in Paris, France, and the Leonardo da Vinci Museum in Rome, Italy.
Training
If you are an aspiring painter, there are excellent training options in terms of schools for painting. Some art institutions that are renowned for painting and painters include the New York Studio School of Painting and Sculpture and the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy.
