Whats the difference between a landscape and a genre painting?
Some landscapes containing people are almost impossible to distinguish from genre paintings. As a rule of thumb, if people are included in a scenic view merely as “staffage” (accessories), and are in no way integral to the picture, the work is a landscape. For more, see: Landscape Painting. Q. What is portraiture? Portraiture describes portrait paintings or drawings of people: commonly executed as full-length, threequarter-length, head and shoulders, or head and neck. Portraits were an important source of patronage for artists, at least until the advent of photography. For more, see: Portrait Art. Q. What are still-life paintings? The term still-life commonly refers to a picture portraying an arrangement of objects (usually flowers or kitchen utensils, but almost any object may be included) laid out on a table. It derives from the Dutch word Stilleven, employed from the mid-17th century onward, to describe paintings previously called simply ‘Fruit’ or ‘Flower Pieces’, or ‘Breakfast Pie
