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 16780
- advertisement 227
- allegorical painting 1472
- animal painting 2750
- animation 17
- architecture 372
- artist's book 14
- augmented reality 1
- battle painting 637
- bijinga 113
- bird-and-flower painting 127
- calligraphy 242
- capriccio 156
- caricature 677
- cityscape 8120
- cloudscape 693
- design 3599
- digital 8
- figurative 7387
- flower painting 2390
- genre painting 21156
- graffiti 277
- history painting 1480
- illustration 6073
- installation 2340
- interior 1216
- jewelry 87
- landscape 22412
- literary painting 864
- manga 23
- marina 3008
- miniature 396
- mobile 59
- mosaic 41
- mural 47
- mythological painting 2992
- nude painting (nu) 4239
- object 8
- ornament 43
- panorama 25
- pastorale 102
- performance 162
- photo 2245
- pin-up 20
- portrait 25625
- poster 850
- quadratura 40
- religious painting 11334
- sculpture 3786
- self-portrait 2451
- shan shui 37
- sketch and study 6761
- stabile 15
- still life 4541
- symbolic painting 4202
- tapestry 43
- tessellation 210
- trompe-l'œil 84
- tronie 210
- urushi-e 1
- utensil 262
- vanitas 56
- veduta 331
- video 6
- wildlife painting 413
- yakusha-e 257