Genre

The Ninth Wave by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850. Seascape

A Genre is a well defined type or category of music, art, or writing; artworks often fit into two or more genres.

"Genre" also refers to a hierarchy of types of paintings instituted under the Academy system. "Genre Painting" is one of the types.

> Back in the heyday of the Academy system, artists used to have an official list detailing which types of paintings were more important than others. [1]

Hierarchy of the genres in painting according to European academies of fine art.

* 1.- Historical Painting was ranked number one in the old academic tradition; represents significant events of history, religion or literature.
* 2.- Portraiture is the artistic representation of persons or sitters.
* 3.- Genre also called genre scene or petit genre, depicts aspects of everyday life.
* 4.- Landscape, a term in painting used for a representation of a natural scenery of land or sea (Seascape), towns (Townscape) or cities (Cityscape).
* 5.- Still life, inanimate painting of subjects like: flowers (bouquet), vases, jars, fruits, etc.

* The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill by John Trumbull, 1786. Historical Painting.

* Claude Monet Reading by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1872. Portraiture

* Diego Velázquez, Las Hilanderas 1657. Genre Painting

* Niagara Falls from the American Side by Frederic Edwin Church, 1867. Landscape

* Peonies by Emil Carlsen. Still life

* Marriage of the Virgin (ca. 1620-35) by Luis Juárez

* Anthony van Dyck, Charles I King of England at the Hunt, 1635.

* The Feast of the Gods by Giovanni Bellini, ca. 1514.

* Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael, Stormy Sea with Sailing Vessels, 1668.

* Still Life with Coffee Pot by Fernando Botero.

* La liberte guidant le peuple by Eugene Delacroix, 1830.

* José María Velasco, Self-Portrait, 1894,

* Barge Haulers on the Volga by Ilya Repin, 1870-1873.

* Frederic Edwin Church, Cotopaxi, 1855.

* William Merritt Chase, Still Life - Flowers.

Ambrosius Bosschaert, Still-Life of Flowers, 1614.

## See also[edit]

Thomas Cole, Landscape Scene from the Last of the Mohicans, 1827.

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Thomas Moran, A View of Venice, 1895, Cityscape.

Childe Hassam, Winter in Union Square, 1892. Cityscape

Albert Bierstadt, Seal Rock, California, 1872. Seascape

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Claude Monet, The Boardwalk on the Beach at Trouville, 1870, Cityscape.

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Les côteaux de l'Hermitage, Pontoise by Camille Pissarro, ca. 1867. Townscape

Alfred Sisley, Thames at Hampton Court, 1874.  Landscape

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