The fine arts arose still in the ancient time. People sought to draw that they saw around themselves - the nature, animal, other people. Then there were main genres of painting though later artists found many interesting plots for themselves.
Instruction
1. The landscape is considered the most ancient genre of painting. Long since it allowed people to express the admiration of the nature. Modern concept of this genre wider: there is a landscape of the sky, sea (marine), a city landscape, industrial, etc.
2. The still life, unlike a landscape, means the image of objects of inanimate nature. This word and is transferred from French ""nature morte"". In such pictures it is possible to see production compositions from the household items, flowers, vegetables, fruit which are spread out on a table or somewhere else.
3. A portrait - a genre in which the central object is the specific person. Most often the face and also a body to a breast is represented by close up (chamber portrait), but also the person can be represented to the utmost (a ceremonial portrait). A time of people can take also the insignificant place on a canvas. Portraitists try to represent character and emotions of model, to show inner world through appearance. An important role in portraits is played by details - a ducking, position of a hand, points, a hat, etc. The portrait can be fancy-dress, historical, religious, family, posthumous (retrospective), a portrait picture, a portrait type, a self-portrait (when the artist draws himself), etc.
4. The nu genre, the image of a naked human body, mainly women's, attracts invariable interest of artists since ancient times and up to now.
5. The animalistic genre means the image of representatives of the animal kingdom - it can be both elephants and whales, and insects. As a rule, the naturalness and naturalism is characteristic of this genre.
6. The genre art places emphasis on everyday life of people. In such pictures it is possible to see a casual meeting of acquaintances on the street, meal, working everyday life, some casual events in human life. Lines of a genre - simplicity, realness, the ordinary. Often such pictures have the small size.
7. The historical genre represents significant scenes and events from history - peace and military (a battle genre) scenes, etc.
8. Plots of religious painting are episodes from the Bible and the Gospel, the image of monasteries, churches and temples. Blossoming of religious painting fell on the Middle Ages.
9. Creating pictures in a genre of fantastic painting, artists are inspired by fantastic motives. Often such images are created for illustration of books of the corresponding genre or for the collections devoted to popular fantasies movies and series.
10. Abstraction gives a big scope for imagination, it is a genre of free painting. The artists creating in this genre refuse realism and naturalistic display of reality. They create an image such as they see it. Here an important role is played by emotions and associations. So, the person or an event can be represented in the form of several multi-colored spots. The well-known example of abstractionism - the picture "Black Square" of Kazimir Malevich.
11. Besides above-mentioned, there are many genres, for example, allegorical, epic, vanitas (the image of a skull), interior, a caricature, etc.