Visual Art Genre

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'Visual Art Genre' is a set of conventions and styles for pursuing an art form. It is more concerned with the subject of the artwork, rather than the artisist method or material used (which corresponds to the art form). For instance, a... more

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Still life		Art Subject	The Basket of Apples	A still life is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, plants and natural substances like rocks) or man-made (drinking glasses, cigarettes, pipes, hotdogs and so on) in an...
			Still Life with Cheeses
			Vase with Three Sunflowers
			Still Life with Oranges
			Still Life with a Bottle
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Abstract art			The Scream	Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which exists independently of visual references to the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the...
			Chicago Picasso
			Baltimore Federal
			Excavation
			Sky Above Clouds IV
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Portrait		Quotation Subject	Mona Lisa	A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason,...
			Self Portrait with Black Vase
			Self-portrait with a friend
			Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers
			Lansdowne portrait
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Landscape art		Art Subject	Water Lily Pool	Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather usually is an element of the composition.In the first century A.D., Roman frescoes of landscapes decorated...
			Haystacks
			Jack Pine
			Impression, Sunrise
			Le Parlement
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Christian art			Annunciation	Christian art is art produced in an attempt to illustrate, supplement and portray in tangible form the principles of Christianity. Virtually all Christian groupings use or have used art to some extent. The prominence of art and the media, style, and...
			The Last Supper
			Pietà
			The Last Judgment
Genre painting			The Shrimp Girl	Genre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes....
			The Potato Eaters
			A Lady Writing a Letter
			Tuna Fishing
			Four Times of the Day
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History painting			Washington Crossing the Delaware	History painting, as formulated in 1667 by André Félibien, a historiographer, architect and theoretician of French classicism, was in the hierarchy of genres considered to be the grand genre. History painting is the painting of scenes with...
			Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
			The Last Supper
			Annunciation
			The Annunciation
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Visionary art			Madonna	Visionary art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical theme, or is based in such experiences. Both trained and self-taught (or outsider) artists have, and continue...
Visionary art			Landscape With The Fall of Icarus
Narrative art			Voyage of Life	Throughout history people have told stories with pictures. Long ago, people drew and painted stories on the walls of caves and tombs. The Romans carved stories into stone, the Ancient Greek painted pictures on pots and in the Middle Ages, women used...
Narrative art			Arts Canada Afloat
Marine art			Rowing Home	Marine art or maritime art is any form of figurative art (ie painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. As marine painting or maritime painting (particularly strong from the 17th to 19th...
			The Gulf Stream
			The Herring Net
			Watson and the Shark
Monument			Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Regiment	A monument is a structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of past events. They are frequently used to improve the appearance of a...
Monument			Sherman Monument
Kinetic art			Red Polygons	Kinetic art is art that contains moving parts or depends on motion for its effect. The moving parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the observer. The term kinetic sculpture refers to a class of art made primarily from the late 1950s...
Religious image				A religious image is a work of visual art that is representational and has a religious purpose, subject or connection. All major historical religions have made some use of religious images, although their use is strictly controlled and often...
Fantastic art				Fantastic art is an art genre. The parameters of fantastic art has been fairly rigourously defined in the scholarship on the subject. It has traditionally been largely confined to painting and illustration, but since the 1970s has increasingly been...
Allegory				[[Image:Filippino Lippi 001.jpg\|thumb\|260px\|right\|''Allegory of Music by Filippino Lippi.'' Tempera on panel, 61 × 51 cm, c. 1500.The "Allegory of Music" is a popular theme in painting; in this example, Lippi uses symbols popular during the High...