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Looking at Art

Discover the diverse subjects represented in visual art and what each work conveys. This guide categorizes art into various subjects including Landscape, Portrait, Still Life, Narrative/Genre, Fantasy, Abstraction, and Non-objective art. Each category is defined with distinct features, from landscapes depicting natural scenery to portraits focusing on individuals. Learn how narrative art tells stories and how abstraction simplifies subjects to their core elements. Delve into the fundamentals of the picture plane to understand the layers of foreground, middleground, and background.

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Looking at Art

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  1. Looking at Art Subject: What is represented in a work of art. What a work of art is about.

  2. Subject Categories • Landscape (cityscape, seascape…) • Portrait • Still life • Narrative/Genre • Fantasy • Abstraction • Non-objective

  3. Landscape    A painting or drawing in which natural land scenery, such as mountains, trees, rivers or lakes, is the main feature.

  4. Portrait An image of a person, especially the face and upper body.

  5. Still life A painting or drawing of inanimate (non-moving) objects.

  6. Narrative Works of art that seem to tell a story. They can be historical.

  7. Genre These works also have a narrative quality. Genre is defined as a realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life.

  8. Fantasy Art that depicts images or objects in unreal or unexpected situations or settings.

  9. Abstraction Art that simplifies objects or ideas to their most basic elements in order to emphasize the elements at the subject matter.

  10. Non-objective Art that is not representational, containing no recognizable figures or objects

  11. Picture plane The surface of a painting or drawing. The 3 areas of the picture plane are the foreground, middleground and background.

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