Watercolor painting Watercolor painting

Author: Zhai Yong, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: Watercolor painting is a painting genre that uses water as a medium to mix powdered pigments. Depending on the subject matter, it can be categorized into still life, landscape, and figure themes, among others. Its colors can produce vibrant, soft, bright, and rich effects on the canvas. The functions of watercolor painting include both appreciation and practicality, with differences in expression methods such as realism and decoration. Broadly speaking, traditional heavy-ink painting, as well as murals, decorative paintings, propaganda posters, and advertisements popular in the modern era, can also fall under this category. Watercolor painting is a globally recognized genre that has been introduced to China for nearly three centuries. In the early 20th century, watercolor painting entered Chinese education as part of a "drawing" course. As an independent art form, watercolor painting largely inherits the style of 18th-century British watercolor art in terms of its form and aesthetic preferences.