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 18055
- advertisement 240
- allegorical painting 1602
- animal painting 2924
- animation 12
- architecture 397
- artist's book 14
- augmented reality 1
- battle painting 733
- bijinga 121
- bird-and-flower painting 152
- calligraphy 242
- capriccio 159
- caricature 702
- cityscape 8948
- cloudscape 825
- design 3712
- digital 24
- figurative 9161
- flower painting 2544
- furniture 41
- genre painting 24013
- graffiti 295
- history painting 1714
- icon 496
- illustration 6596
- installation 2556
- interior 1468
- jewelry 86
- landscape 24334
- literary painting 934
- manga 23
- marina 3461
- miniature 401
- mobile 59
- mosaic 50
- mural 72
- mythological painting 3312
- nude painting (nu) 4659
- object 14
- ornament 42
- panorama 25
- pastorale 105
- performance 223
- photo 2956
- pin-up 20
- portrait 28632
- poster 1076
- quadratura 36
- religious painting 12118
- sculpture 4353
- self-portrait 2687
- shan shui 47
- sketch and study 7311
- stabile 15
- still life 4887
- symbolic painting 4423
- tapestry 45
- tessellation 312
- trompe-l'œil 51
- tronie 215
- urushi-e 1
- utensil 294
- vanitas 58
- veduta 349
- video 23
- wildlife painting 441
- yakusha-e 257