List of visual arts techniques
In this list, techniques of the fine arts are summarized in meaningful groups. An alphabetical collection of artistic techniques is accessed via the category: Artistic Technique .
In addition to the techniques in the narrower sense, there are also art-historical technical terms that can be assigned to them (e.g. panel painting is not a technique, but a form of representation of the picture that can be assigned to painting ).
Art historical epochs and styles , on the other hand, are broken down in terms of content in the portal: Art and sorted alphabetically in the category: Art style .
painting
materials
- Acrylic paint
- binder
- Bolus
- varnish
- primer
- Casein color
- linseed oil
- canvas
- Painting medium
- Oil paint
- pigment
- Spray paint
- tempera
- turpentine
- wax
Tool
techniques
- Action painting
- airbrush
- watercolor
- Book illumination
- collage
- Encaustic
- Fresco painting
- Frottage
- Stained glass
- gouache
- graffiti
- Grattage
- Grisaille
- Lüftlmalerei
- Miniature painting
- Oil painting
- Pastel painting
- Secco painting
- Stencil
- Street art
- tempera
- Ink painting
- Blurring
Technical terms
- Accumulations
- Combine painting
- Monochrome
- Self-organizing painting
- Panel painting
- Trompe-l'oeil
- Sfumato
Sculpture , plastic
materials
- alabaster
- bronze
- concrete
- Gemstone
- Stainless steel
- plaster
- gold
- rubber
- Wood
- Ceramics
- Synthetic resin
- copper
- marble
- Porcelain , see: List of technical terms relating to porcelain
- silver
- steel
- Natural stone
- Paper mache
- Stucco marble
- terracotta
- volume
Tools
- Various irons for stone processing (hammers, sculptor's mallets, mallets, corrugated hammers, prellexes, pointed irons, tooth irons, hinge irons, flat irons, two-tooth irons, quarter irons, etc.), (the stone carver's tool), but also jackhammers, drilling tools, lifting tools
- different irons for woodworking, u. a. Carving knives, but also chainsaws and other electrical devices, everything similar to a wood or. Carpentry workshop
- hammer
- chisel
- Hallmark
- Grindstone
- Gouge
- Burin
- different woods for modeling for clay processing
- spatula
- Rasps for marble, plaster and wood
- Polishing tools
Technical terms
Graphics and drawing
materials
Paper / carrier material
Pigment / drawing material
Tools
Printmaking
- Goat foot and other irons for woodcut
- Digger
- Moulette
- Polishing steel
- Etching needle
- Squeegee
- roulette
- scraper
- Chopping knife
drawing
techniques
drawing
High pressure
Gravure
- Aquatint
- Crayon manner
- Heliogravure
- Drypoint etching
- Copper engraving
- Mezzotint
- Embossing
- etching
- Steel engraving
- Vernis mou
Flat printing
Other
- Fine printing process
- Frottage (print through)
- Embossing (blind printing)
- Silhouette
Technical terms
Craft techniques
material
Tools
technology
- Batik
- Barrel painting
- Braiding
- Marquetry
- Furniture design
- mosaic
- Porcelain painting
- Blacksmithing
- tapestry
- Vase painting
- Gild
photography
- Daguerreotype
- Digital photography
- Fine printing process
- Color photography
- Photogram
- Large format photography
- holography
- Kirlian photography
- 35mm photography
- Pinhole camera
- Lomography
- Medium format photography
- Panoramic photography
- Black and white photography
- Blurring
new media
Conceptual overlaps and multiple mentions
Overlapping in the allocation of the generic terms is inevitable in this list. The watercolor painting z. B. is often assigned to the drawing because of the carrier material (paper) and the often deliberately used pencil template. In the field of art studies there are in addition drawn sketches and pictorial (with the brush executed) oil sketches on cardboard or next to the ink painting and (embodied with pins) ink drawings on paper. Above all, the term mixed technique - originally understood as a variant of oil painting - has been used since the second half of the 20th century to refer to a multitude of different, composite or successive techniques (oil glazes over acrylic, overpainted photographs or collages, assemblages, etc.). A typical example of the problem of an ambiguous technical assignment is the installation (art) , which can develop both from painting and from sculpture.
Multiple answers are often possible for the syntactic sub-terms materials or tools : Spatula z. B. can be used in different ways by painters, graphic artists and sculptors, glass can be shaped by glass artists or painted by glass painters.