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The Ten Subject Categories of Representational Painting

Learn about the ten categories of representational painting, including historical events, mythological subjects, religious themes, portraits, everyday life, landscapes, still-life, and vernacular art.

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The Ten Subject Categories of Representational Painting

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  1. The Ten Subject Categories of Representational Painting Introduction to HumanitiesHeartland Community CollegeAuthor: Migotsky 101 students

  2. History Megalography Mythology Religion Portraiture Genre Landscape Still-life Rhopography Vernacular The following slides give definitions and examples of the ten categories of representational painting.These categories are:

  3. HISTORY Historical paintings primarily depict an important event or time from the past. For example, battles have traditionally been a popular historical subject. Scenes from the lives of historically important figures are also typical subjects of historical paintings.

  4. Benjamin West ClinedinstBattle of New Market 1914

  5. Emanuel Gottlieb LeutzeWashington Crossing the Delaware, 1851

  6. MEGALOGRAPHY Painting intended to excessively glorify some event, person, or thing. A great example of this might be a painting in which Elvis is made to look angelic or resurrected. Another good example would be a painting which pays homage to a sports figure.

  7. Naoki MitsuseElvis 1994

  8. Mark BruniMichael Jordan, The Dunk

  9. MYTHOLOGY A mythological painting relates to a belief, myth, god, or goddess. Many different cultures have paintings depicting mythological subjects.

  10. Sandro BotticelliThe Birth of Venus c. 1485

  11. William FaheyBird Goddess

  12. RELIGION Any painting related to a religion or belief in a deity is considered a religious painting. A common example of this category would be a pieta, or painting of the Madonna and child. Other examples would include scenes from any religious text.

  13. Fra BartolomeoThe Entombment 1515

  14. Rabbi KarroExodus 1996

  15. PORTRAITURE A portrait represents a specific person, group of persons, or animal. Portraits are different from other paintings which happen to depict people because portraits are posed. Portraits don’t show people in everyday life, or people being glorified--a portrait is just a painting of a person. Portraits were often commissioned by wealthy--but not famous--merchants and their families.

  16. Vincent Van GoghSelf-Portrait 1889

  17. RaphaelPortrait of Bindo Altoviti 1515

  18. GENRE Paintings that represents everyday life are considered to be genre. An example of this would be a painting of me typing this right now. This differs from a portrait because it’s not just a painting of me. It’s a painting of me typing.

  19. Jan VermeerThe Milkmaid 1658-60

  20. Mary FrancesMan Ironing Bra

  21. LANDSCAPE Landscapes depict scenery such as mountains, plains, rivers, communities, etc. A painting of HCC would be considered a landscape. Seascapes are a subcategory of landscapes. These paintings are full of lakes, rivers, streams, etc.

  22. J.M.W. TurnerLandscape with a River and a Bay in the Background 1845

  23. Caspar David FriedrichThe Tree of Crows 1822

  24. SEASCAPE A subset of landscape, seascape depicts a lake, river, stream, or other body of water.

  25. Aelbert CuypDordrecht: Sunrise c. 1650

  26. Andreas AchenbachSunset After a Storm on the Coast of Sicily 1853

  27. STILL-LIFE Any painting of an inanimate object is considered still-life. A painting of a woman carrying a bowl of oranges wouldn’t be a still-life. If you were to take away the woman and paint just the bowl of oranges, you would have a still-life. Flowers and fruit are two of the most common subjects in this category.

  28. Arshile GorkyStill Life of Flowers 1928

  29. Camille PissaroStill Life with Apples and Pitcher 1872

  30. RHOPOGRAPHY Rhopography is the depiction of the trivial bric-a-brac of everyday life. Paintings of items that are unassuming or lack importance fall into this category. Even a painting of food that is left on a plate can be considered rhopography. If you think the painting of food would be still-life, you’re also right. A painting may fall into more that one category.

  31. Idelle WeberCooper Union Trash 1974

  32. Giuseppe BaglioniRubbish Dump

  33. VERNACULAR Vernacular, or folk art, is made by people who have had little or no formal schooling in art. Folk artists usually make works of art with traditional techniques and content, in styles handed down through many generations, and often of a particular region.

  34. Howard Finster1920’s Car Lot 1992

  35. Anna Mary Robertson Moses (Grandma Moses)A Country Wedding 1951

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