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'Visual Art Genre' is a set of conventions and styles for pursuing an art form. It is more concerned with the subject of the artwork, rather than the artisist method or material used (which corresponds to the art form). For instance, a painting may be a still life, an abstract, a portrait, or... more

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x Still life		The Basket of Apples	A still life (plural still lifes ) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry,...
		Still Life with Cheeses
		Vase with Three Sunflowers
		Still Life with Oranges
		Still Life with a Bottle
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x Abstract art		The Scream	Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century,...
		Chicago Picasso
		Baltimore Federal
		Excavation
		Sky Above Clouds IV
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x Portrait		Mona Lisa	A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason,...
		Self Portrait with Black Vase
		Self-portrait with a friend
		Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers
		Lansdowne portrait
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x Landscape art		Water Lilies	Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather usually is an element of the composition. In the first century B.C., Roman frescoes of landscapes decorated...
		Jack Pine
		Impression, Sunrise
		Le Parlement
		Les Alyscamps
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x Christian art		Annunciation	Christian art is art produced in an attempt to illustrate, supplement and portray in tangible form the principles of Christianity. Most Christian groups use or have used art to some extent, although some have had strong objections to some forms of...
		The Last Supper
		Pietà
		The Last Judgment
		The Virgin and Child with St. Anne
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x Genre painting		The Shrimp Girl	Genre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes....
		The Potato Eaters
		A Lady Writing a Letter
		Tuna Fishing
		Four Times of the Day
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x History painting		David	History painting, as formulated in 1667 by André Félibien, a historiographer, architect and theoretician of French classicism, was in the hierarchy of genres considered to be the grand genre. History painting is the painting of scenes with narrative...
		Oath of the Tennis Court
		The Last Judgement
		The Last Judgment
		Madonna and Child with St. Anne
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x Visionary art		Madonna	Visionary art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical themes, or is based in such experiences. Both trained and self-taught (or outsider) artists have, and continue...
x Visionary art		Landscape With The Fall of Icarus
x Narrative art		Arts Canada Afloat	Narrative art is art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time. Some of the earliest evidence of human art suggests that people told stories with pictures. However, without some...
x Marine art		Rowing Home	Marine art or maritime art is any form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre...
		The Gulf Stream
		The Herring Net
		Watson and the Shark
		Side View, Great Eastern
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x Monument		Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Regiment	A monument is a type of structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of past events. They are frequently used to improve the appearance...
		Sherman Monument
		Minsk Monument to Hero Cities
		The Motherland Calls
		Princeton Battle Monument
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x Kinetic art		Red Polygons	Kinetic art is art that contains moving parts or depends on motion for its effect. The moving parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the observer. The term kinetic sculpture refers to a class of art made primarily from the late 1950s...
x Religious image		Annunciation	A religious image is a work of visual art that is representational and has a religious purpose, subject or connection. All major historical religions have made some use of religious images, although their use is strictly controlled and often...
		St. Sebastian
		The Adoration of the Magi
		St. Sebastian
		St. Sebastian
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x Fantastic art		Winged Figure	Fantastic Art is an art genre. The parameters of fantastic art has been fairly rigorously defined in the scholarship on the subject ever since the time of Jules Verne and HG Wells. There was a movement of sci-fi/fantasy artists prior to and during...
		Angel
		The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
		Contradiction: Oberon and Titania
		Come unto These Yellow Sands
x Allegory		Zauber	Allegory (from Greek: αλλος, allos, "other", and αγορευειν, agoreuein, "to speak in public") is a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than the literal. An allegory is a device that can be presented in literary form, such as a...
		Zauber Tondos
		The Book of Lovers
		The Lovers
		Lovers
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x Decorative art		Sard Ewer	The decorative arts are a traditional term for a number of arts and crafts for the making of ornamental and functional works in a great range of materials including ceramic, wood, glass, metal, textiles and many others. The field includes ceramics,...
		Table
		Tapestry of The Life of Louis XIV
		Wardrobe
		Carpet bearing the arms of France
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x Portrait painting		The Beautiful Nani	Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to depict the visual appearance of the subject. Beside human beings, animals, pets and even inanimate objects can be chosen as the subject for a portrait. In addition to portrait painting...
		Il Condottiero
		Abraham Lincoln
		L.H.O.O.Q.
		Portrait of Daniele Barbaro
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x Figure study		Female Nude	A figure study is a painting, drawing or sculpture made for study purposes with a live model as the subject matter. The live model can be clothed, partly clothed or nude and the art work is a representation of the full body of the model, or of...
x Community art			Community arts, also known as "dialogical art" or "community-based art," refers to artistic activity based in a community setting. Works from this genre can be of any art forms and is characterized by interaction or dialogue with the community. The...
x Animal Painting		The Floating Feather
		Peacocks
		A Young Hare
		Les Dindons
		The Deer Hunt
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x Southern art			Southern art is a broad term that applies to art of, about, and from the American South. The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans houses the largest single collection of Southern art. In 1992, the Morris Museum opened in Augusta, Georgia,...
x Self-portrait			A self-portrait is a representation of an artist, drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist. Although self-portraits have been made by artists since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid 1400s that...