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Types of Visual Art Forms: General Questions

Q. What are genres? The term “genres” is a fancy name for “types/subjects of paintings”. The main genres are: history painting, portraiture, everyday scenes (confusingly called genre-paintings), landscape and still life.   Q. What is the meaning of “aesthetics”? Aesthetics (or esthetics) – a term derived from the Greek word aisthesis, meaning “perception” – is the branch... »