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Abstract Art is a genre of art that encompasses many substrains, including Cubism, Neo-Plasticism, Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Impressionism, Action Painting, Constructivism, Op Art, etc. Abstract art can be either art that subordinates the subject to abstract design or that eliminates the subject altogether. Some principal abstract artists include Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Joan Miro, Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, and Jackson Pollack.
Landscape is one of the most popular traditional art genres. The art of the landscape has progressed from being a backdrop for a historical, allegorical, mythological, or religious scenes to being treated as a subject in its own right. Some of the great landscape painters include Claude Lorrain (also known as Claude Gellee), Jacob Ruisdael, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Camille Pissarro was a student of Corot's and many of the other Impressionists, believing in painting en plein air, gravitated toward naturalistic landscape painting.
Still Lifes have a long history in art, but have been especially popular since the 17th century, the time when landscape painting began to emerge as an independent genre. Two of the greatest still life painters include Jean-Baptiste Chardin and Paul Cezanne. Besides Cezanne, still life was particularly popular with the Impressionist and a href="post-impressionism.html">Post-Impressionist painters such as Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Vincent Van Gogh.
African American Art as an important American genre of art goes back to the artists of the Harlem Rennaissance in the 1930s, including Jacob Lawrence, Romare Beardon, Bernard Hoyes, and Ellis Wilson. Other important African American artists include Frank Morrison, Justin Bua, Laverne Ross, and Laurie Cooper.
Women Artists have often been overlooked in the history of art, but women painters, sculptors, and other artists have made a significant contribution from the Renaissance to today. Some of the more important women artists are Marie Vigee-Lebrun, Rosa Bonheur, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo, and Helen Frankenthaler.
Photography has emerged in the 20th century as a major art form. Major fine art photographers include Alfred Steiglitz, Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, and O. Winston Link.
Maritime Art s a genre focused on depicting the ships of the line, clipper ships, classic racing yachts, and other tall ships. Some principal maritime artists include Montague Dawson, Geoff Hunt, Robert Radcliffe, Henry Scott, Frank Smith, Tim Thompson, and Geoffrey Huband.
Illustrators came into prominence with the development of commercial lithography in the second-half of the 19th Century, creating illustrations for magazines, books, covers, advertisements, calendars, and other media. Some well-known illustrators include Jessie Wilcox Smith (1863-1935 USA), Edward Penfield (1866-1925 USA), Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966 USA), Joseph Leyendecker, N.C. Wyeth, and Norman Rockwell.
Western (Cowboy) Art emerged in the late-19th century in the form of artists who specialized in depicting cowboys, native americans, and life on the western frontier, including George Catlin, Frederic Remington, Charles Russell, and other painters of the American West. Contemporary western artists include Jack Sorenson, Tim Cox, and Tom Ryan.
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