As a traditional art with a long history, painting has been deeply loved by people for thousands of years and has also developed for a long time. Nowadays, painting is not only an art, a cultural undertaking, but also an industry with a certain scale, which has become a job and occupation for many people to maintain their lives and support their families.

Although many people are engaged in painting, they are also painting, but painting is very different from painting. Among the people engaged in painting, some are called painters, some are called painters, some are called painters, and some are called artists. These appellations can reflect their differences and differences.

So, what's the difference between a painter and a painter, and between a painter and an artist?

I understand it this way:

First of all, the painter.

A painter is a painter who paints a gourd ladle. Generally speaking, painting tools have basic painting knowledge and skills. It is a mechanical, technical and repetitive work to draw pictures according to the specified requirements and fixed patterns in a batch painting factory or workshop. For example, most of the painters in Dafen Village, Shenzhen are painters.

Second, the painter.

A painter can also be said to be a senior painter. It refers to those painters who have been engaged in meticulous painting for many years, accumulated a lot of experience and are quite skilled in painting techniques. Painters mean the same thing as masons, carpenters and masons.

When painting, painters and calligraphers usually have ready-made template paintings, so they must draw according to the designated paintings, completely "according to the script", and can't add subjective creativity or integrate their own thoughts and feelings into the paintings. Therefore, the paintings painted by painters and calligraphers are generally copied and processed, not considered as works of art.

Third, the painter.

The biggest difference between a painter and a painter is that he is an independent creative individual. He did not mechanically copy a particular painting or template painting, but created paintings with certain or high artistic value by virtue of his considerable professional painting accomplishment and independent artistic aesthetic thought. Generally speaking, painters who have mature works, are recognized by professional organizations and have certain influence in society are called painters.

Fourth, the artist.

Artists here refer to those painters who have high attainments in painting, have their own unique style and have great influence on society. Artists can also be said to be the best among painters.

Fifth, summary.

Painters, painters and artists have different identities because of the different nature of painting, but these are not fixed. For example, in the process of painting, painters gradually form their own independent thoughts and concepts on painting art through thinking, feeling, summarizing and accumulating, and they have exquisite painting techniques and create more influential works, which can be transformed from painters to painters and artists. For example, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael, three outstanding figures in the European Renaissance, all painted fixed paintings in churches at first, from painters to painters, and later became painters and artists through their own efforts.