Fine Arts Genres

Fine Arts Genres

By Kathi Mitchell

​Genre is a category in which a work is classified. Music, art, literature, and more have different genres that help students understand what they're seeing.

​What is a genre?

Multiple Select

Which of these is the one you know most about?

• medieval

• romantic

• modern

• postmodern

Reorder

Reorder the following

• medieval

• renaissance

• romantic

• modern

• postmodern

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Multiple Choice

In this time period makers were few, cities were lightly populated, and government was in flux.

• romantic

• galant

• medieval

• renaissance

• modern

​During the Renaissance, many artists were able to create beautiful paintings and sculptures. Italy had Donatello, Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael are all remembered for their amazing work.

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Raphael was my favorite

Multiple Choice

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are named after:

• Famous composers from Italy

• Sculptors from all over Europe

• The architects who built the main structures in London

• Great Italian Renaissance artists

Multiple Choice

Who painted this picture?

• Michaelangelo

• Donatello

• Raphael

• Leonardo da Vinci

​This genre doesn't make a lot of lists. Like "antitranscendentalism" Galant work was a reaction against another style and was trying to undo what other artists were doing. Not a good way to gain lasting fame.

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Galant

Multiple Choice

During what years were Galant creators doing their work?

• 1500s

• 1600s

• 1720-1770

• early 1800s

Multiple Choice

With which other genres did Galant overlap?

• Medieval and Renaissance

• Renaissance and Baroque

• Baroque and Classical

• Classical and Romantic

Multiple Choice

What did Gallant designers find wrong with the Baroque?

• It was too simple

• It was too difficult to accomplish

• It was too dignified and serious and grand

• It was not accessible to the common person

You might not guess a painting was Baroque, some of the music might be hard to narrow down, but architecture showed the philosophy clearly.

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​Baroque ideas showed in architecture

Multiple Choice

Which of the fine arts most clearly demonstrates the Baroque vibe?

• architecture

• painting

• music

• poetry

Multiple Select

Which words go with "the Baroque vibe"?

• grand

• dignified

• serious

• simple

The Romantic philosophy has captured the imagination of many students. There's something about equality that gets people revved up.

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​The Romantic Era

Multiple Choice

Which ideas go with the Romantic Era?

• Grandeur, dignity, seriousness.

• Passion, emotion, intuition.

• Balance, civilization, scientific method.

• Meaninglessness, bewilderment, despair.

Multiple Choice

Who was the hero of the Romantics?

• The strong woman

• The educated man

• There were no heroes

• The common person

​Romanticism thought people were good. When the Civil War and Russian Revolution and World Wars started happening, people couldn't hold on to that idea.

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Modernism is different

Multiple Choice

What words go with modernist thinking and creating?

• uncertainty, flux, changeable

• Opportunity, patronage, challenges

• Dignity, seriousness, grandeur

• Disillusionment, despair, bewilderment, meaninglessness

Multiple Choice

From what era do these writers (including T. S. Eliot, Steinbeck, Woolf, and Joyce) come?

• medieval

• romantic

• modernist

• baroque

​Postmodernism is important. We're living it. An illustration of its amorphous nature is that even the dates of the postmodern era are debated. It may have begun as early as 1930 or as late as 1965.

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