1. Hierarchy of Genre Painting

2. 1) Still Life
1) A still life is a work of art showing mostly inanimate subject matter. 2) Still life Objects are categorized into 2 groups: *natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) *man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, statues, etc.). 3) It Started in Rome in the Middle Ages (16TH CENTURY) and has remained significant since then. 4) Still life gives the artist the most freedom! The artist can choose the arrangement of elements/objects, unlike other genres.

3. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Fruit basket 16th century

4. Lubin Baugin Le Dessert de gaufrettes 17th century

5. Luis Meléndez Still Life with Apples, Grapes, Melons, Bread, and Jug
Luis Meléndez Still Life with Apples, Grapes, Melons, Bread, and Jug. 18th century

6. Vincent van Gogh Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers 19th century

7. 2) Animal Painting
1) An animal painter specializes in the portrayal of animals.
During the last century "wildlife artist" became the preferred term.
2) Frans Snyders was the founder of Animal Painting as a genre.
He did not want artwork of animals (alive or dead) to be lumped in with still life paintings and thought animal painters needed their own category.
3) Animal painters Were low in the hierarchy of genres because most of them only provided the animal, which left buyers needing a different specialist for the background/landscape.
4) This genre did not start to earn respect until the 18th century in England. This was due to the need for portraits of racehorses (and other prized livestock) as advertisement/promotion.

8. Jan Weenix, 1692 composition of dead game

9. George Stubbs, 1762 Whistlejacket

10. Eugène Delacroix, 1830 A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother

11. Frans Snyders, 17th Century Boarhunt

12. 3) landscape
1) Landscape art is the depiction of natural scenery. (mountains, trees, and rivers) 2) Landscape art has 3 distinct characteristics/elements: A) main subject is set in a wide view B) Sky is almost always included in the view C) weather is often an element of the composition. 3) The 2 main divisions of landscape artworks are Western which uses bright colors and usually more details, and Eastern which uses dull muted colors (usually with a brown/tan tint to the whole painting) 4) Landscapes may be entirely imaginary or copied from reality with varying degrees of accuracy. 5) a topographical view is a landscape where the purpose is to depict an actual, specific place, especially including buildings (like a map).

13. Römischer Meister, 60-40 BCE. Landscape with scene from the Odyssey

14. Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1830 The Park at Petworth House

15. Isaac Levitan, 1894 Above Eternal Peace

16. Vincent van Gogh, 1889 The Starry Night

17. Li Kan, 1300 AD. Bamboos and Rock (China)

18. 4) genre painting
1) Genre art is the representation of scenes from everyday life. (such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes)
2) Paintings are divided into a hierarchy of genres, which are the 6 different categorizes of subject matters. But these paintings are a genre in painting, not genre works.
3) genre works were the first to show the average person doing average, everyday activities and therefore, rapidly grew in popularity.
genre motifs became so popular, they were one of the first to show up in other forms of decorative arts such as porcelain, furniture, wallpaper and textiles.
4) Genre works may be realistic, imagined, or romanticized (combination of realistic with imagined) by the artist.

19. Pieter Brueghel, 1568 Peasant Dance

20. Dirck Hals, 1635 Merry company

21. Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1765 Filial Piety

22. Hendrick Avercamp, 1608 Winter landscape with skaters

23. 5) Portrait painting
1) A Portrait painting is a depiction of the visual appearance of the subject. (usually applied to the depiction of human subjects.)
2) Portraitists Mostly created their work by commission only, which meant only 2 groups could afford to be Memorialized.
a) the rich and powerful (kings, noblemen, knights, etc.)
B) Biblical figures when commissioned by churches as a group.
3) However, some artists became personally inspired by admiration/affection for some subjects and would do less prestigious portraits.
Over time, this opened the genre and it became more common for middle-class patrons to commission portraits of their families and colleagues.

24. Anthony van Dyck, 1635-1636 Triple portrait of King Charles

25. Gilbert Stuart, 1796 Portrait of George Washington

26. Albrecht Dürer, 1500 Self-Portrait

27. Leonardo da Vinci, 1503–1505 Mona Lisa

28. Gustav Klimt, 1907 Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

29. 6) History painting
1) History painting, is defined by its subject matter rather than artistic style and depicts a moment in a narrative story. 2) history painting is at the top of the hierarchy list, as the most difficult and therefore prestigious of the 6 categories. 3) History paintings almost always contain a large number of figures. 4) History paintings include depictions of moments in: *religious narratives, *narrative scenes from mythology *allegorical scenes (meaning to represent or symbolize ideas from moments no one alive can confirm or deny). 5) This term covers paintings made between the Renaissance and the 19th century, after which the term is not used for works that still meet the basic definition.

30. Charles Le Brun, 1664, Entry of Alexander into Babylon

31. Karl Bryullov, 1827-1833 The Last Day of Pompeii

32. Botticelli, 1482 Primavera. Love and the Gods.

33. Paul Delaroche, 1833 The Execution of Lady Jane Grey

34. John Everett Millais, 1854-1860 Christ In The House Of His Parents