Painting

Painting Genres
1. History Painting
2.Portraits
3.Genre-painting
4.Landscapes
5.Still Life

The establishment of these

genres and their relative
status in relation to one other,
stems from the philosophy of
arts promoted by the great
European Academies of Fine
Art.

Painting Genres
1. History Painting
2.Portraits
3.Genre-painting
4.Landscapes
5.Still Life

The five types offine art

painting are listed in order of
their official ranking or
importance

History Painting
Traditionally the most-respected of all the
genres, history paintings are not limited to those
depicting 'historic scenes'.
The term derives from the Italian word "istoria",
meaning narrative (story), and refers to
paintings showing the exemplary deeds and
struggles of moral figures.

Liberty Leading the

People
Eugene Delacroix

Gricault
La zattera della
Medusa

Spolarium Juan Luna

Portraiture Painting
Portraits are pictures of people, deities or
mythological figures in human form. The
genre includes group-portraits as well as
individual compositions.
A portrait of an individual may be face-only,
head and shoulders, or full-body.

Group Portrait of M.S.

Volkov, S.N. Volkov
and S.M.VolkovManzei

Girl with a Pearl Earring:

by Johannes Vermeer

Genre Painting
This category of painting - confusingly
referred to as genre-paintings or genrescenes - denotes pictures that portray
ordinary scenes of everyday life.
Subjects encompass domestic settings,
interiors, celebrations, tavern scenes,
markets and other street situations.

Luncheon of The Boating Party: by Renoir

Contrast of Life by Bong Perez

Landscape Painting
denotes any picture whose main
subject is the depiction of a scenic
view, such as fields, hillscapes,
mountain-scapes, trees, riverscapes,
forests, sea views and seascapes.

Antibes 1888 by Claude Monet

Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, (1868)

Albert Bierstadt

Still Life Painting

A 'still life'' typically comprises an
arrangement of objects (such as flowers
or any group of mundane objects) laid
out on a table.

Still Life with Fruit and Wineby Thomas Badger

Still Life with Plums Apricots

and a Wasp
By Emilie Preyer

Painting Styles
Realism

Modernism

Impressionism
Expressionism
Abstraction
Cubism
Surrealism
Pointillism
Fauvism
Minimalism
Pop Art
OP Art

Style

It can refer to the distinctive

visual elements, techniques
and methods that typify an
individual artist's work.

Painting Styles
Realism

Modernism

Impressionism
Expressionism
Abstraction
Cubism
Surrealism
Pointillism
Fauvism
Minimalism
Pop Art
OP Art

Style

It can also refer to the

movement or school that an
artist is associated with.

Realism
Portrays objects,
sceneries, activities
and figures as they
have been seen and
experienced.
The Gleaners. Millet, 1857

A replica of what is
actually seen or felt.

Gricault
La zattera della Medusa

La zattera della Medusa

Courbet

Realist Painters

Modernism
Modernism refers to this periods interest in
new types of paints and other materials, in
expressing feelings and ideas, in creating
abstractions and fantasies, rather than
representing what is real.
Paul Czanne is often called the Father of
Modernism.

Impressionism
Impressionism is
arguably the most
famous French
painting movement
ever.
Soleil Levant (Impression, sunrise) by
Claude Monet in 1872

Impressionism
When they create an
art they are more
concerned with the
effects of lights that
would get the attention
of the audience.
Soleil Levant (Impression, sunrise) by
Claude Monet in 1872

Key Points in Impressionism

Color And Light

In contrast, the impressionists painted with

freely brushed colors that conveyed more
of a visual effect than a detailed rendering
of the subject. They used short broken
strokes that were intentionally made visible
to the viewer.

Key Points in Impressionism

Color And Light

They also often placed pure unmixed colors

side by side, rather than blended smoothly
or shaded. The result was a feeling of energy
and intensity, as the colors appeared to shift
and moveagain, just as they do in reality.

Haystack - Mist

Haystack - Morning

Key Points in Impressionism

Everyday Subjects
They ventured into capturing scenes of
life around them, household objects,
landscapes and seascapes, houses,
cafes, and buildings.

Luncheon of the Boating Party - Renoir

Key Points in Impressionism

Painting Outdoors

Impressionists found that they could best

capture the ever-changing effects of light
on color by painting outdoors in natural
light.

Key Points in Impressionism

Open Composition

They experimented with unusual visual

angles, sizes of objects that appeared
out of proportion, off-center placement,
and empty spaces on the canvas.

Post-Impressionism

Starry Night-Vincent Van Gogh

Impressionist Painters

Expressionism
From Germany during
the 20th Century, that
characterize paintings
as Harsh, Brutal,
Introspective, and
Morbid.
The Scream - Edvard Munch

Expressionism
The artist uses free
distortion of form and
color through which he
gives visual form to
inner emotions
The Scream - Edvard Munch

Lady in Green Jacket - August Macke

You are mine Aleksej Cvelov

The Large Red Horses by Franz Marc

Expressionist Painters

Pointillism
Pointillismis a technique
of painting in which
small, distinct dots of
pure color are applied in
patterns to form an
image.

Pointillism
Georges Seurat and Paul
Signac developed the
technique in 1886,
branching from
Impressionism.

Georges Seurat: Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Sunday by Paul Signac

Morning, Interior by Maximilien Luce

Abstraction
Indicates a departure
from reality in depiction
of imagery in art.
Wassily Kandinsky is
considered the father of
abstract painting

Abstraction
The main characteristic
of abstract art is that it
has no recognizable
subject.

Abstract Expressionism
The style of painting
that was totally
abstract and very
free in form.
The Liver - Gorky

Abstract Expressionism
Uses his own emotions
and experience in the
making of painting.
Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock No.5, 1948.

Jackson Pollock No. 32

Willem de Kooning,
Woman V

'Boon' by James Brooks

Geometric Abstraction
uses simple geometric
shapes and does not
represent anything in
the natural world.

Theo van Doesburg Composition VII

(the three graces)

Mechanical Elements,
Fernand Lger

Alexis Marcou's Fractured Light

Minimalism

The term "minimalist"

often colloquially
refers to anything that
is spare or stripped to
its essentials.

Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow

Minimalism

Piet Mondrian
developed an abstract
painting style that
involved straight lines
and colored
rectangles.

Piet Mondrian

Abstract Painters

Cubism
An artistic movement that spanned from
1907 to 1914, and which featured the
abandonment of traditional rules on
perspective in favor of flattened,
geometric representations of objects
and people.

Cubism
Cubism was an
innovative art
movement pioneered
by Pablo Picasso and
Georges Braque.

Cubism
Analytical Cubism

In this style, artists would study (or analyze) the

subject and break it up into different blocks.
They would look at the blocks from different
angles. Then they would reconstruct the
subject, painting the blocks from various
viewpoints.

Portrait of Picasso(Juan Gris)

Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin

Cubism
Synthetic Cubism
introduced the idea of adding in other
materials in a collage.
Artists would use colored paper,
newspapers, and other materials to
represent the different blocks of the
subject.

Picasso: Three Musicians

Cubism Painters

Pablo Picasso

Georges Braque

Juan Gris

Surrealism
An artistic, philosophical,
intellectual and political
movement that aimed to
break down the
boundaries of
rationalization to access
the imaginative
subconscious.

An eye with a view

Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory

The Son of Man(Rene Magritte)

The Song of Love(Giorgio de Chirico)

Surrealist Painters

Ren Magritte

Max Ernst

Salvador Dali

Fauvism
Fauvism, a vibrant and
colorful style of painting,
uses bold colors, simplified
drawing and expressive
brushwork.
Henry Matisse: Green Line

Fauvism
developed by Henri
Matisse and Andre
Derain

Henry Matisse: Green Line

Pop Art
Pop Art is art made from
commercial items and
cultural icons such as
product labels,
advertisements, and
movie stars.

Pop Art
Pop Art uses images and icons
that are popular in the modern
world like famous celebrities
like movie stars and rock stars,
commercial items like soup
cans and soft drinks, comic
books, and any other items that
are popular in the commercial
world.

Optical Art

Op art, also known

as optical art, is a
style of visual art
that uses optical
illusions.

Optical Art

Op art works are

abstract, with
many better
known pieces in
black and white.

sergi-delgado-optical-art-eye

Martina_Kisidayova_8D

Painting Styles and Genre

Realism
Surrealism
Impressionism
Expressionism
Cubism
Pointillism
Fauvism