The development and genres of oil painting are well-connected and inherited. Early oil paintings can be divided into "classicism", "romanticism", "academicism", "realism", "impressionism", etc.
Post-impressionist painters Cézanne (French) is known as the "father of modern painting." 
Modern painting began at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. There are more genres and a short time of spread. The most important and influential one is "Expressionism". "Fauvism", "Cubism", "Futurism", "Surrealism", "Dadaism", "Abstractism", "Abstract Expressionism", "Super Realism", "Mysticism"，and "New Realism" and so on.