Find additional information about different painting styles: a list of the styles of painting:
Abstract
Abstract Expressionism
Post-Abstract Expressionism
Art Brut
Art Deco
Baroque
Body painting
CoBrA
Color Field
Constructivism
Contemporary Art
Combined Realism
Cubism
Expressionism
Fauvism
Figuration Libre
Folk
Futurism
Graffiti
Hard-edge
Impressionism
Lyrical Abstraction
Mannerism
Minimalism
Modernism
Naïve art
Neo-classicism
Op art
Orientalism
Orphism
Outsider
Painterly
Photorealism
Pinstriping
Pluralism
Persian Miniature
Pointillism
Pop art
Postmodernism
Post-painterly Abstraction
Precisionism
Primitive
Pseudorealism
Realism
Rectoversion
Reductive
Representational Art
Rococo
Romanticism
Romantic realism
Socialist realism
Stuckism
Surrealism
Tachism
Tonalism
Study the information on painting types. Look at some of the reproductions: Types (Genres) of Painting
Paintings are traditionally divided into five categories or 'genres'. 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, like the the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno in Florence, the Royal Academy in London, and the French Académie des Beaux-Arts. The five types of fine art painting, listed in order of their official ranking or importance, are as follows:
1. History Painting (works with message or moralistic content)
2. Portraits (individual, group or self-portraits)
3. Genre-painting (everyday scenes)
4. Landscapes
5. Still Life
Examples of Famous Paintings In All Genres
History Genre
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. The latter might include Saints or other Biblical figures, pagan divinities, mythological heroes as well as real-life historical figures. Such pictures, traditionally large-scale public artworks, aim to elevate the morals of the community.
Famous History Paintings:
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Peter Paul Rubens: Samson and Delilah |
Pierro Della Francesca: Resurrection of Christ (1453);
Rogier van de Weyden: The Deposition (1440);
Andrea Mantegna: Ecce Homo (c.1500);
Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper (1497);
Raphael: School of Athens (1511);
Michelangelo Buonarroti: Genesis, The Last Judgement (Sistine Chapel);
Titian: Christ Appearing to the Magdalen (c.1514);
Jacopo Tintoretto: The Annunciation (1583-7);
El Greco: The Resurrection (1600);
Nicolas Poussin: The Crossing of the Red Sea (1634);
Caravaggio: The Conversion on the Way to Damascus (1601);
Peter Paul Rubens: Samson and Delilah (1609);
Diego Velazquez: Christ on the Cross (1632);
Rembrandt: Jacob Blessing the Children of Joseph (1656);
Giambattista Tiepolo: Apollo Bringing the Bride (1750);
Jacques-Louis David: Death of Marat (1793);
Francisco Goya: The Third of May (1808);
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze: Washington Crossing the Delaware River (1851);
Pablo Picasso: Guernica (1937).