Types of Portraits and Various Genres

When talking about portraits we can distinguish among the following basic types:

• Self portrait -
• Group Portrait
• Nude Portrait
• Equestrian Portrait
• Formal/ Informal
• Historical Portrait
• Celebrity Portrait

And when talking about non-abstract paintings and photos we can generally classify them into the following genres according to what topic they depict:

• still life - comprising an arrangement of objects (traditionally flowers or kitchen utensils, but almost any household object may be included) laid out on a table
• biblical scenes, mythologies
• genre painting -pictures depicting situations and scenes of everyday life
• portraits
• animal painting - portrayal of animals
• and various scapes
  • townscape/ cityscape - townscapes depict cities (urban landscape, veduta - the painted landscape, often cityscapes which were a common 18th century painting thematic
  • skyscape - depictions of clouds, weatherforms, and atmospheric conditions
  • moonscape - show the landscape of a moon, riverscapes - depict rivers or creeks, seascape - depict oceans or beaches
  • landscape - the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition
  • inscape - to convey the psychoanalytic view of the mind as a three-dimensional space)