Hierarchy Archive

Painting Hierarchy or the Hierarchy of Genres are the six main types of painting:

1. History Painting
2. Portrait Painting
3. Genre Painting
4. Landscape Painting
5. Animal Painting
6. Still Life Painting

Most of the paintings falls in one or more of these categories and are defined, interpreted accordingly.

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Children’s book illustrator and writer from Nottinghamshire, England, Kate Greenaway was a famous artist in late 19th century. She illustrated children’s books for her entire life and after achieving a considerable status in England, there is a Kate Greenaway Medal distributed every year in UK. From such a revered artist this illustration is from one of her children’s books. It depicts three ladies in a garden with musical instruments. Attired in long gowns, the women seem singing and playing the instruments to please somebody not present in the frame. They are near the wall of the garden proceeding to someone. Some kind of perennial vine over the wall and the uprising pink flowers behind them adds a tender touch to the scene. As we can […]

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