Categories Of ArtWorks

Famous Art Historians have categorized Paintings into 7 Categories/Types... They are Religious, Mythology, Portraits, Genre, Still Life, Landscape and Historical.

RELIGIOUS
The paintings based on Religion are famous in the West especially the paintings painted during the Renaissance period which has a lot of contents. During Renaissance, the wealthy who could afford to hire an artist pay them to produce religious based artworks.

Isenheim Altarpiece, by Matthias Grunewald in 1506-1515 (1046 × 902)

The paintings themselves are not necessarily to be of religious subject matter, but they usually express or reveal something of the grandeur and misery of the human spirit.

Religious paintings are mostly associated with the life of Church. They depict the stories told and the images described in the religious stories.

these are examples of such paintings :-

Magi, in 1854 (400 × 300)

Crucifixion, by Jacapo Tintoretto in 1563 (4096 × 1755)

MYTHOLOGY

A myth is a sacred narrative explaining how the world and humankind came to be in their present form.

Mythological paintings are where the paintings show the relationship between human culture and the environment.

Started during the early Renaissance Period. Highly observed in the early centuries in Greek Sculptures.

Among the best-known subjects of Italian artists are Botticelli's “Birth of Venus”.

Herbet Jame Draper's Painting, (901 × 1100)          The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Boticelli (399 × 258)

The Triumph of Neptune, by Nicolas Poussin

Hercuse and Omfala, by Francois Boucher in 1735

PORTRAITS

A painting/photograph/sculpture of a person, where the face and expressions are focused.

Mona Lisa, by Leonardo Da Vinci (800 × 1143)

 

Represents the mood and personality of the person.

 Hans Makart, (1979 × 2529)

Zass Andrew Pavlovich, (1304 × 1474)

Often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.

 Rembrandt, (1112 × 1400)

GENRE

Term for a category of forms of art based on some set of stylistic criteria.

  The Palais Royal, by Camille Desmoulins (2243 × 2888)

 Genre painting is where the main subject features human figures with no specific identity.

 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1600 × 1063)

Many genre paintings are scenes from common life particularly portraying the lower class.

STILL LIFE


Work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects.

Still life paintings, (particularly before 1700), often contained religious symbolism relating to the objects. Some modern still life employs three-dimensional mixed media, and uses found objects, photography, and computer graphics.

LANDSCAPE

Comprises the visible features of an area of Land. For example, mountains, hills, rivers, lakes, ponds, sea, vegetation, buildings, and weather.

HISTORICAL

A painting that illustrates the discovery, collection, organization, or presentation of the past events.

 Rape of the Sabines, by Fransisco Pradilla

Artists mostly depict events specifically to paintings of scenes from secular history. The moments are grabbed and visualized.

 The Third May, by Fransisco De Goya

Judith Slaying Holofernes, by Artemisia Gentileschi in 1620