*
Share This
Visual Art Genre table
table started by
danm for the Visual Art Commons
'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...
more
x
Add another type with the property you want to view.
| x name | x image | x Artworks | x article |
|---|---|---|---|
| x Still life |
|
The Basket of Apples |
A still life (plural still lifes ) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry,...
|
| Still Life with Cheeses | |||
| Vase with Three Sunflowers | |||
| Still Life with Oranges | |||
| Still Life with a Bottle | |||
| more ▼ | |||
| x Abstract art |
|
The Scream |
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century,...
|
| Chicago Picasso | |||
| Baltimore Federal | |||
| Excavation | |||
| Sky Above Clouds IV | |||
| more ▼ | |||
| x Portrait |
|
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 | |||
| more ▼ | |||
| x Landscape art |
|
Water Lilies |
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...
|
| Jack Pine | |||
| Impression, Sunrise | |||
| Le Parlement | |||
| Les Alyscamps | |||
| more ▼ | |||
| x 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 | |||
| The Virgin and Child with St. Anne | |||
| more ▼ | |||
| x 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 | |||
| more ▼ | |||
| x History painting |
|
David |
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 narrative...
|
| Oath of the Tennis Court | |||
| The Last Judgement | |||
| The Last Judgment | |||
| Madonna and Child with St. Anne | |||
| more ▼ | |||
| x 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 themes, or is based in such experiences.
Both trained and self-taught (or outsider) artists have, and continue...
|
| Landscape With The Fall of Icarus | |||
| x Narrative art |
|
Arts Canada Afloat |
Narrative art is art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time. Some of the earliest evidence of human art suggests that people told stories with pictures. However, without some...
|
| x Marine art |
|
Rowing Home |
Marine art or maritime art is any form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre...
|
| The Gulf Stream | |||
| The Herring Net | |||
| Watson and the Shark | |||
| Side View, Great Eastern | |||
| more ▼ | |||
| x Monument |
|
Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Regiment |
A monument is a type of 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...
|
| Sherman Monument | |||
| Minsk Monument to Hero Cities | |||
| The Motherland Calls | |||
| Princeton Battle Monument | |||
| more ▼ | |||
| x 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...
|
| x Religious image |
|
Annunciation |
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...
|
| St. Sebastian | |||
| The Adoration of the Magi | |||
| St. Sebastian | |||
| St. Sebastian | |||
| more ▼ | |||
| x Fantastic art |
|
Winged Figure |
Fantastic Art is an art genre. The parameters of fantastic art has been fairly rigorously defined in the scholarship on the subject ever since the time of Jules Verne and HG Wells. There was a movement of sci-fi/fantasy artists prior to and during...
|
| Angel | |||
| The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke | |||
| Contradiction: Oberon and Titania | |||
| Come unto These Yellow Sands | |||
| x Allegory |
|
Zauber |
Allegory (from Greek: αλλος, allos, "other", and αγορευειν, agoreuein, "to speak in public") is a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than the literal. Fictions with several possible interpretations are not allegories in the...
|
| Zauber Tondos | |||
| The Book of Lovers | |||
| The Lovers | |||
| Lovers | |||
| more ▼ | |||
| x Decorative art |
|
Sard Ewer |
The decorative arts are traditionally defined as ornamental and functional works in ceramic, wood, glass, metal, textile. The field includes ceramics, glassware, furniture, furnishings, interior design, and architecture. The decorative arts are...
|
| Table | |||
| Tapestry of The Life of Louis XIV | |||
| Wardrobe | |||
| Carpet bearing the arms of France | |||
| more ▼ | |||
| x Portrait painting |
|
The Beautiful Nani |
Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to depict the visual appearance of the subject. Beside human beings, animals, pets and even inanimate objects can be chosen as the subject for a portrait. In addition to portrait painting...
|
| Il Condottiero | |||
| Abraham Lincoln | |||
| L.H.O.O.Q. | |||
| Portrait of Daniele Barbaro | |||
| x Figure study |
|
A figure study is a painting, drawing or sculpture made for study purposes with a live model as the subject matter. The live model can be clothed, partly clothed or nude and the art work is a representation of the full body of the model, or of...
|
|
| x Community art |
Community art, also known as "dialogical art" or "community-based art," is an art form based in a community setting. Works from this genre can be of any art forms and is characterized by interaction or dialogue with the community. The term was...
|
||
| x Animal Painting | The Floating Feather | ||
| Peacocks | |||
| A Young Hare | |||
| Les Dindons | |||
| The Deer Hunt | |||
