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Pages in category "Visual arts genres" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 208 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The performing arts is a form of entertainment that is created by the artist's own body, face and presence as a medium. There are many skills and genres of performance; dance, theatre and re-enactment being examples. Performance art is a performance that may not present a conventional formal linear narrative.
This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts.. Genre is the term for any category of creative work, which includes literature and other forms of art or entertainment (e.g. music)—whether written or spoken, audio or visual—based on some set of stylistic criteria.
This is a list of art movements in alphabetical order. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies , evolved over time to group artists who are often loosely related. Some of these movements were defined by the members themselves, while other terms emerged decades or centuries after the periods in question.
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Genre paintings depict aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. Genre painting is one of the genres in the hierarchy of genres . Before categorizing a work here, it may be useful to confirm that the artist was a genre painter/that the period in which the work was made would unambiguously consider the ...
Genre paintings—neither ideal in style, nor elevated in subject—were admired for their skill, ingenuity, and even humour, but never confused with high art. The hierarchy of genres also had a corresponding hierarchy of formats: large format for history paintings, small format for still lifes.
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