Artworks by genre
A genre system divides artworks according to depicted themes and objects. A classical hierarchy of genres was developed in European culture by the 17th century. It ranked genres in high – history painting and portrait, - and low – genre painting, landscape and still life. This hierarchy was based on the notion of man as the measure of all things. Landscape and still life were the lowest because they did not involve human subject matter. History was highest because it dealt with the noblest events of humanity. Genre system is not so much relevant for a contemporary art; there are just two genre definitions that are usually applied to it: abstract or figurative.
- abstract 17397
- advertisement 230
- allegorical painting 1558
- animal painting 2797
- animation 12
- architecture 396
- artist's book 14
- augmented reality 1
- battle painting 716
- bijinga 113
- bird-and-flower painting 150
- calligraphy 242
- capriccio 159
- caricature 696
- cityscape 8702
- cloudscape 758
- design 3684
- digital 17
- figurative 7895
- flower painting 2439
- furniture 41
- genre painting 23284
- graffiti 283
- history painting 1665
- icon 491
- illustration 6389
- installation 2523
- interior 1394
- jewelry 86
- landscape 23659
- literary painting 905
- manga 23
- marina 3220
- miniature 399
- mobile 59
- mosaic 41
- mural 65
- mythological painting 3167
- nude painting (nu) 4460
- object 12
- ornament 43
- panorama 25
- pastorale 105
- performance 222
- photo 2986
- pin-up 20
- portrait 27797
- poster 1027
- quadratura 36
- religious painting 11756
- sculpture 4131
- self-portrait 2578
- shan shui 48
- sketch and study 7046
- stabile 15
- still life 4667
- symbolic painting 4366
- tapestry 45
- tessellation 309
- trompe-l'œil 55
- tronie 215
- urushi-e 1
- utensil 291
- vanitas 57
- veduta 346
- video 26
- wildlife painting 414
- yakusha-e 257