The place of the color image in the visual arts

The article is devoted to the structuring and systematization of contemporary art works of art depending on the environment of their creation, technologies and materials. The possibilities of pictorial art have been especially vividly revealed by easel painting since the 15th century, from the moment of the massive use of oil paints. It is in it that a special variety of content and deep elaborations of form are available. The element of color and paints comes along with the sensations of transparency of streams of watercolors flowing freely along the sheet, viscosity and density of gouache, velvety and fragility of pastels, giving many delicate shades.