Visual arts genres

Graffiti (singular graffiti, or graffito only in graffiti archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. Graffiti ranges from simple written "monikers" to elaborate wall paintings, and has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire.

A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better represents personality and mood, this type of presentation may be chosen. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photo

art genre mostly showing inanimate objects

thumb|John Leech (caricaturist)|John Leech, Substance and Shadow (1843), published as Cartoon, No. 1 in Punch, the first use of the word cartoon to refer to a satirical drawing

style of literary fiction and art

alt=|thumb|A Friend in Need, a 1903 Dogs Playing Poker painting by [[Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, is a common example of kitsch.]] thumb|Puppy by Jeff Koons (2010) is a self-aware display of kitsch, specifically as a combination of opulence and cuteness.

thumb|Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait without beard, end September 1889, (F 525), Oil on canvas, 40 × 31 cm., Private collection. This may have been Van Gogh's last self-portrait. Given as a birthday gift to his mother. thumb|Self-portrait by Judith Leyster, a [[Dutch Golden Age painter, mostly of genre subjects. NGA, 1630. In reality, she probably did not wear expensive clothes like these while painting.]]

thumb|340px|Stone relief with arabesques of tendrils, palmettes and half-palmettes in the [[Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, Syria]] thumb|Part of a 15th-century ceramic panel from Samarkand ([[Uzbekistan) with white calligraphy on a blue arabesque background]]The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements. Another definition is "Foliate ornament, used in the Islamic world, typically using leaves, derived from stylised half-palmettes,

artistic production that developed from the hegira (year 622) to the nineteenth century, from Spain to India among populations of Islamic culture

artistic or symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death

thumb|upright=0.9|Grotesque studies, Michelangelo. Grotesque is an adjective often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks. In art, performance, and literature, however, grotesque may also refer to something that simultaneously invokes an audience feeling of uncomfortable bizarreness as well as sympathetic pity.

art that is public and temporary in public spaces

artistic motif on the universality of death

thumb|Diorama used for the filming of Thomas & Friends television series

forms of media native to computers, computational, relying on computers for redistribution; e.g. telephones, computers, virtual worlds, website games, human-computer interface, computer animation, interactive computer installations

art genre of artworks that contains movement

upright=1.3|thumb|Ceiling of the Treasure Room of the National Archaeological Museum of Ferrara |Archaeological Museum of Ferrara, [[Italy, painted in 1503–1506]]

art created outside the boundaries of official culture by those untrained in the arts

thumb|A traditional silhouette portrait of the late 18th century A silhouette (, ) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the silhouette is usually presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all. The silhouette differs from an outline, which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic medium, but were

An idyll (, ; ; occasionally spelled idyl in American English) is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls (Εἰδύλλια).

paintings of scenes or events from everyday life

arts or crafts concerned with the design and manufacture of functional, beautiful objects

thumb|333px|Vanitas by Antonio de Pereda

art produced by artisans trained in a relevant skill working within a local client economy

art with the human body

right|thumb|Alvan Fisher, Pastoral Landscape, 1854

wax or plaster cast made of a person’s face following death

photography genre, created in accordance with the vision of the artist as photographer and with subjective intent

artwork featuring aspects of a work of fiction created by a fan

artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies

art of carving and engraving of stones or gems

genre of art engaging nature and ecology

thumb|upright=1.35|Stairway of the Hôtel Tassel, an early example of Gesamtkunstwerk A Gesamtkunstwerk (, 'total work of art', 'ideal work of art', 'universal artwork', 'synthesis of the arts', 'comprehensive artwork', or 'all-embracing art form') is a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so. The term is a German loanword accepted in English as a term in aesthetics.

form of figurative art that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea

Internet aesthetic capturing strange places

thumb|250px|Fish-shaped door handle from Germany, an example of a zoomorphic artwork In the context of art, zoomorphism describes art that imagines humans as non-human animals. It can also be defined as art that portrays one species of animal like another species of animal or art that uses animals as a visual motif, sometimes referred to as "animal style". Depicting deities in animal form (theriomorphism) is an example of zoomorphism in a religious context. The word zoomorphism derives from and .

Modernisme (, Catalan for "modernism"), also known as Catalan modernism and Catalan art nouveau, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the search of a new entitlement of Catalan culture, one of the most predominant cultures within Spain. Nowadays, it is considered a movement based on the cultural revindication of a Catalan identity. Its main form of expression was Modernista architecture, but it also encompassed many other arts, such as painting and sculpture, and especially the design and the decorative arts (cabinetmaking, carpentry, forg

arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers and fabrics to construct practical or decorative objects

genre of art that is religious in theme

form of art that is created through the use of autonomous systems, often involving algorithms, random processes, or computational techniques to generate artworks

genre of painting; field of work for painters

artwork created for a certain place

thumb|The Smoker, Joos van Craesbeeck

contemporary painting style in Tansania

art movement coined in the 1960s

literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan

perception of being physically present in a non-physical world

nude photography for the purposes of fine art

type of art

grave art

front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product

thumb|upright 1.3|A bodegón by an unknown Spanish painter, Kitchen Scene, depicting most of the commonly employed Motif (visual arts)|motifs Bodegóns are a type of painting from the 17th-century Spanish Baroque period, which are still lifes of food and household objects (mostly culinary) in nondescript or humble surroundings. They sometimes depicts commoners selling food, eating, or drinking. "Bodegón" is Spanish for "still life", yet the style is only one part of what are called "still lifes" in English.

practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes

art genre that depicts scenes from everyday life

thumb|Regenerative Reliquary (2016) by American bioartist Amy Karle. Human [[stem cells were grown to form bone over a preformed hydrogel scaffold in the shape of a hand.]] Bioart is an art practice where artists work with biology, live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes. Using scientific processes and practices such as biology and life science practices, microscopy, and biotechnology (including technologies such as genetic engineering, tissue culture, and cloning) the artworks are produced in laboratories, galleries, or artists' studios. The scope of bioart is a range con

type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk

thumb|right|Painting of the Dam Square in Amsterdam, by [[Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheyde, ]] thumb|right|Photograph of Dresden, Germany, in the 1890s In the visual arts, a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area. It is the urban equivalent of a landscape. Townscape is roughly synonymous with cityscape, though it implies the same difference in urban size and density (and even modernity) implicit in the difference between the words city and town. In urban design the terms refer to th

art created for commercial purposes

massive artwork that reveals a wide, all-encompassing view of a particular subject