WHAT IS YOUR PREFERRED GENRE?

In Dreams Gone By, Mixed Media Collage Using Spray Paint, Color Copy Transfer, Colored Pencils. © Ruth Zachary.

If you started collecting images and textures and other subjects for collage, you may have noticed many of your choices are similar. (covered in the post of May 30, 2014) You may have been attracted to still life, or the opposite, choosing to collect textures showing up in beverage advertisements, which you arranged into abstractions in collage. If you did this you should have noticed you have a preference for certain subjects, or approaches. These subjects probably point to the genre you would like to interpret as an artist. Sometimes it takes years to decide upon one or two favorite subjects or ways of working.

Personally, I am an artist who never figured out what she wanted to be when she grew up. I was a printmaker for many years, but that was a medium, not a subject. Even then I moved between etching and collagraphs and various subjects, led by excitement for my experimentation and  process.

GENRE TYPES- To develop this idea about preference, I have included an

incomplete list of Subject Matter( Not defined by Media) Maybe one or two will

spark a flash of recognition for you… that a particular genre or subject matter is satisfying for you. If there is a concept or manner of expression associated with the subject, that may also be a quality you are attracted to, and wish to express in your art.

Realistic or Objective Art

         Ethnic or Cultural Context- might include Regionalism

         Figurative work- (human subjects)

         Historic Period with associated Characteristic traits

         Landscape

         City Scape

         Pop Art

         Portraiture

         Primitivism

         Romanticism

         Still Life

         Surrealism

         Symbolism

         Wildlife

Abstraction Applied to Recognizable Subject Matter: Includes some of the various kinds of abstraction of a realistic or objective subject. (to differentiate from totally non-objective art)

        

         Cubism

         Dadaism

         Distortion and Exaggeration

         Expressionism ( generally not related to a subject)

         Impressionism.


Images and writing on this post are the Copyright © of Ruth Zachary.