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 17571
- advertisement 233
- allegorical painting 1575
- animal painting 2807
- animation 12
- architecture 396
- artist's book 14
- augmented reality 1
- battle painting 720
- bijinga 113
- bird-and-flower painting 150
- calligraphy 242
- capriccio 159
- caricature 697
- cityscape 8746
- cloudscape 780
- design 3691
- digital 24
- figurative 8832
- flower painting 2455
- furniture 41
- genre painting 23418
- graffiti 294
- history painting 1682
- icon 492
- illustration 6388
- installation 2533
- interior 1399
- jewelry 86
- landscape 23795
- literary painting 917
- manga 23
- marina 3317
- miniature 399
- mobile 59
- mosaic 49
- mural 71
- mythological painting 3231
- nude painting (nu) 4488
- object 14
- ornament 42
- panorama 25
- pastorale 105
- performance 221
- photo 2963
- pin-up 20
- portrait 27987
- poster 1049
- quadratura 36
- religious painting 11860
- sculpture 4294
- self-portrait 2608
- shan shui 47
- sketch and study 7087
- stabile 15
- still life 4700
- symbolic painting 4378
- tapestry 45
- tessellation 309
- trompe-l'œil 51
- tronie 215
- urushi-e 1
- utensil 291
- vanitas 58
- veduta 349
- video 23
- wildlife painting 414
- yakusha-e 257