Go to All Categories A–Z
The Art Genome Project
The Art Genome Project is the classification system and technological framework that powers Artsy. It maps the characteristics (we call them “genes”) that connect artists, artworks, architecture, and design objects across history. There are currently over 1,000 characteristics in The Art Genome Project, including art historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities.
Featured Categories
Subject Matter
Medium and Techniques
Style or Movement
All Categories A–Z
0-9
- '85 New Wave
- 1000 - 1400 CE Art
- 15th Century Art
- 16th Century Art
- 17th Century Art
- 18th Century Art
- 1900 - 1917 Art
- 1918 - 1939 (Interwar) Art
A
- Aboriginal Art
- Abstract Art
- Abstract Expressionism
- Abstract Illusionism
- Abstract Landscape
- Abstract Painting
- Abstract Photography
- Abstract Sculpture
- Abstract versus Figurative Art
- Abstraction-Création
- Action Painting
- Adolescence
- Advertising and Brands
- Aerial View
- African Art
- African Diaspora
- Afrofuturism
- Album, Folio and Fan Formats
- Allegory
- Allover Composition
- Altarpiece
- Alter Egos and Avatars
- Altered and Substituted Canvases
- Aluminum
- American Furniture and Design
- American Impressionism
- American Mid-Century Design
- American Modernism
- American Prints 1880-1950
- American Realism
- American Regionalism
- American Sculpture 1830-1950
- American Studio Craft Movement
- American Tonalism
- American Works on Paper 1880-1950
- Americana
- Analogue Filmmaking
- Anatomy
- Ancient Art
- Ancient Egypt
- Andes Region Art
- Angular
- Animal Portrait
- Animals
- Animation
- Anthropomorphism
- Antiquity as Subject
- Appropriation
- Arabesque/Scroll
- Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain)
- Arabic/Farsi Calligraphy
- Archaeological Object
- Architecture
- Architecture's Effects
- Armchair
- Arms and Armor
- Arrivals/Departures
- Ashcan School
- Asian Art
- Assemblage
- Asymmetrical
- Atmospheric Landscapes
- Attenuated Figure
- Australian and New Zealand Art
- Austrian Art
- Automatism
- Aztec Art
- Art Brut
- Art Deco
- Art Deco Furniture and Design
- Art Informel
- Art Nouveau
- Art Nouveau Furniture and Design
- Art That Plays With Scale
- Art in Art
- Art of Burma
- Art of Tonga
- Art of the Congo
- Art of the Ivory Coast
- Art of the Upper Paleolithic
- Arte Povera
- Artist Merchandise and Multiples
- Artist as Ethnographer
- Artist's Frame
- Artists’ Books
- Arts and Crafts Movement
- Asante Art
B
- "Bad Painting"
- Beijing East Village
- Belgian Art
- Bench
- Bengal School of Art
- Benin Art
- Bentwood
- Berlin Artists
- Bible Story
- Biomorphic
- Black Arts Movement
- Black Mountain College
- Black and White
- Black-and-white Photography
- Blurred
C
- Central American Art
- Central Asian Art
- Ceramic
- Ceremonial Object
- Chair
- Chaise Lounge
- Chalk
- Chance
- Chandelier
- Cheyenne Art
- Chiaroscuro
- Chicago Imagists
- Chicano Art
- Childhood
- Children's Furniture and Design
- Chinese Art
- Christian Art and Architecture
- Chrome-Plated
- Cinematic
- Circus/Carnival
- City Scenes
- Cityscapes
- Cityscapes and City Scenes
- Classical Figure
- Classical Mythology
- Clock
- Close-Up
- Cluj School
- CoBrA
- Coffee Table
- Comic/Cartoon
- Computer-Aided Manufacturing
- Conceptual Art
- Conceptual Art and Contemporary Conceptualism
- Concrete
- Concrete Art
- Conflict
- Console
- Constructivism
- Consumerism
- Container
- Contemporary
- Contemporary Academic Realism
- Contemporary African Art
- Contemporary Archaeological
- Contemporary Art
- Contemporary Asian Art
- Contemporary British Art
- Contemporary Canadian Art
- Contemporary Ceramics
- Contemporary Chinese Art
- Contemporary Color Fields
- Contemporary Conceptualism
- Contemporary DIY
- Contemporary Fact versus Fiction
- Contemporary Fauvist
- Contemporary Faux Naïf
- Contemporary Feminist
- Contemporary Figurative Drawing
- Contemporary Figurative Painting
- Contemporary Furniture and Design
- Contemporary Gestural Abstraction
- Contemporary Glass
- Contemporary Gothic
- Contemporary Graphic Realism
- Contemporary Grotesque
- Contemporary Impressionist
- Contemporary Indian Art
- Contemporary Jewelry
- Contemporary Latin American Art
- Contemporary Realist Portrait Photography
- Contemporary Scandinavian Art
- Contemporary Surrealistic
- Contemporary Traces of Memory
- Contemporary Turkish Art
- Contemporary Use of Textiles
- Contemporary Vintage Photography
- Contour Line
- Contrapposto
- Copies and Emulations
- Colab
- Collaborations/Collectives
- Collage
- Collecting and Modes of Display
- Collective History
- Color Field Painting
- Color Gradient
- Color Photography
- Color Theory
- Columns and Totems
- Caravaggesque
- Cardboard
- Caribbean Art
- Caricature / Parody
- Carving
- Caucasus Art
- Ceiling Light
- Celebrity
- Celtic Art
- Censorship
- Contemporary Middle Eastern Art
- Contemporary Minimalist
- Contemporary Modernist-Type Photography
- Contemporary Op Art
- Contemporary Participation
- Contemporary Photography
- Contemporary Pop
- Contemporary Portrait Painting
- Contemporary Portrait Photography
- Contemporary Re-creations
- CAD (Computer Aided Design)
- CalArts
- California Art
- Calligraphic
- Cambodian Art
- Camera Obscura
- Canadian Art
- Capitalist Realism
- Costume Accessory
- Cracked
- Creased Crinkled Wrinkled
- Crime
- Cross-Cultural Dialogue
- Crystalline and Geological Forms
- Cuban Art
- Cubism
- Cultural Commentary
- Curvilinear Forms
- Cut/Ripped
- Cynical Realism
D
- Decay
- Deconstructivism
- Deep Time
- Deities and Holy Figures
- Delegated Art
- Delicate Materials
- Dense Composition
- Densely Textured or Haptic Surface
- Design
- Design by Architects
- Design by Artists
- Design/Architecture Study
- Desk
- Deutscher Werkbund
- Diaristic
- Die Brücke
E
- Early Computer Art
- Early Medieval Art
- Early Renaissance
- Earrings
- Earth Tones
- East Asian Calligraphy
- East Asian Ink-and-Wash Painting
- East German Art
- East Village Art
- East African Art
- East European Art
- Eastern Zhou Dynasty
- Edo Art
- Egyptian Art
- Embossed Paper
- Embroidery
- Emerging Art
- Emerging Design
- Emphasis on Linear Perspective
- En plein air
- Enamel
- Encaustic
- Endurance Art
- Engaged with Byzantine and Medieval Art
- Engaged with European Old Masters
- Engaged with Pre-Columbian Art
- Engaged with Traditional African Art
- Engaged with Traditional Chinese Art
- Engaged with Traditional Islamic Art
- Engaged with Traditional Japanese Art
F
- Face
- Failure
- Family
- Fashion Design and Wearable Art
- Fashion Photography
- Fauvism
- Faux Naïf
- Femininity
- Feminist Art
- Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist
- Fertility/Pregnancy/Birth
- Figurative Art
- Figurative Painting
- Figurative Sculpture
- Figure Studies
G
- Gemstone
- Gender
- Generative Art
- Geometric
- Geometric Abstraction
- German Expressionism
- German Art
- German, Austrian and Swiss Art
- Gestural
- Gestural Abstraction
- Glamour
- Glass & Ceramics
- Glass Objects
H
- Household Objects
- Hudson River School
- Hugs and Kisses
- Human Figure
- Humor
- Hybrids and Imaginary Creatures
- Hyperrealism
- Hyperrealism and Photorealism
- Heian Period
- Hellenistic Art
I
- Iban Art
- Iconic Works of Art History
- Interactive
- Interiors
- Interlaced Bodies
- International Style
- Intersectionality
- Intricately Sculpted
- Iranian Art
- Iraqi Art
- Iridescence/Opalescence
- Irregular Curvilinear Forms
- Identity Politics
- Igbo (Ibo) Art
J
L
- Land Art
- Landscape Photography
- Landscape and Nature Photography
- Landscapes
- Language
- Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork
- Large-Scale Painting
- Large-Scale Photography
- Large-Scale Sculpture
- Late 19th Century Art
- Art of Latin America and the Caribbean
M
- Marble
- Marbleized
- Masculinity
- Mask
- Masonry Construction
- Math
- Mayan Art and Architecture
- Mbole Art
- Mediated View
- Medical/Health
- Middle African Art
- Middle Eastern Art
- Migration
- Mimicking Ruined Materials
- Ming Dynasty
- Miniature and Small-Scale Paintings
- Minimalism
- Minimalism and Contemporary Minimalist
- Minoan Art
- Mirror
- Machines
- Madonna and Child
- Mail Art
- Manga
- Manipulated Photography
- Mannerism
- Manuscript
- Maps/Networks
- Maquette
- Maranao Art
- Medieval Art
- Meiji Art
- Melanesian, Micronesian and Polynesian Art
- Memphis Design
- Mende Art
- Mesopotamian Art
- Metal
- Metallic
- Mexican Muralism
- Mexican Art
- Myth/Religion
- Modernizing of Traditional Technique
- Modes of Transportation
- Modular Design
- Molecular
- Mono-ha
- Monochrome Painting
- Monotype/Monoprint
- Mortality
- Mosaics
- Mourning and Commemoration
- Movement
- Mughal Art
- Multiple Exposure
- Multiple Screens
- Multiple Styles
- Murals and Wall Drawings
- Musical Instrument
- Mutated Bodies
- Mycenaean Art
- Mysticism and the Occult
- Mirrored
- Mixed-Media
- Moche Art
- Modern
- Modern Design
- Modern Jewelry
- Modern Photography
- Modern and Contemporary Design
- Modern and Contemporary Fashion Design
- Modern/Impressionist Art
N
- Neo-Conceptualism
- Neo-Concrete Art
- Neo-Dada
- Neo-Expressionism
- Neo-Geo
- Neo-Impressionism
- Neo-Plasticism
- Neoclassicism
- Neon and Fluorescent Light
- Net Art
- Non-Functional Design
- North African Art
- Northern Renaissance
O
P
- Progressive Artists' Movement
- Projection
- Provocative
- Psychedelic
- Psychoanalysis
- Pulled/Scraped
- Purism
- Pre-Raphaelites
- Pre-World War II School of Paris
- Precisionism
- Prehistoric Art
- Primary Abstraction
- Primary Colors
- Printed Matter
- Prints
- Process Art
- Process-Oriented
- Painting
- Painting and Writing Tools
- Pakistani Art
- Panorama
- Post-War American Art
- Post-War European Art
- Post-World War I European Classicism
- Post-World War II School of Paris
- Post-war French Design
- Poster
- Postminimalism
- Postmodern Architecture and Design
- Poured
- Pre-Columbian Art
- Paper Cut-Outs
- Papua New Guinea Art
- Paris Artists
- Parties and Celebrations
- Passage
- Pastel
- Pastel Colors
- Patinated/Oxidized/Verdigris
- Pattern and Decoration Movement
- Patterns
- People at Home
- Performance Art
- Performing Arts
- Personal Histories
- Personal Writing Systems
- Personification
- Phoenician Art
- Photogram
- Photograph as Material
- Photographic Source
- Photographs of Surfaces
- Photography
- Photojournalism
- Photomontage
- Photorealistic
- Picassoesque
- Pictorialism
- Piles/Stacks
- Pittura Metafisica
- Pixelated
- Popular Culture
- Porcelain
- Portfolios and Books
- Portrait
- Portraits without a Face
- Portugese Art
- Post-'70s Ego Generation
- Post-Impressionism
- Post-Internet Art
- Post-Painterly Abstraction
- Plaster
- Plastic
- Pointillism
- Political
- Political Events
- Political Figures
- Political Minimalism
- Political Pop
- Polychrome Sculpture
- Pop Art
R
- Racial and Ethnic Identity
- Radiating Lines
- Related to Music
- Related to Punk
- Related to Religion
- Related to Toys
- Relational Aesthetics
- Relief
- Religious Building
- Reliquary
- Rembrandtesque
- Renaissance Art
- Raw vs Finished
- Recycled
- Reduced-Scale Architecture
S
- Saints
- San Francisco Artists
- Scandinavian Art
- Scandinavian Furniture and Design
- Scattered Composition
- Scenes of Everyday Life
- School of London
- Science
- Science Fiction
- Screen Format
- Southern Cone Art
- Southern Gothic
- Spaces of the Art World
- Spanish Art
- Sparse
- Spatialism
- Spiral Group
- Splattered/Dripped
- Sports/Athletics
- Spray Paint
- Sustainable Design
- Swiss Art
- Symbolic Composition
- Symbolism
- Symmetrical
- Synchromism
- Silkscreen
- Silver
- Single Object
- Site Specific Art
- Skyscapes
- Slender
- Slumped/Draped
- Smooth Surface
- Snapshot Aesthetic
- Social Action
- Sculptural Use of Paint
- Sculpture
- Sculpture-Based Photography
- Seating
- Seduction and Courtship
- Self as Subject
- Self-Portrait
- Sex
- Sexual Identity
- Sfumato
- Storage
- Street Photography
- Striped
- Study
- Suburbia
- Sui Dynasty
- Suprematism
- Surrealism
- Surveillance
- Suspended/Hanging
- Shadows
- Shallow Depth of Field
- Shang Dynasty
- Sharp/Prickly
- Shin Hanga
- Shiny/Glossy
- Side Chair
- Side Table
- Sideboard
- Silhouettes
- Social Realism
- Socialist Realism
- Sofa
- Soft Sculpture
- Song Dynasty
- Sound Art
- South African Art
- South Asian Art
- Southeast Asian Art
- Southeast European Art
- Staged Photography
- Stained Glass
- Stained Glass Effect
- Stains/Washes
- Steel
- Steel/Iron Frame Construction
- Still Life
- Stolen Moments
- Stone
- Stool
T
- The City
- The Domestic and Domesticity
- The Elements
- The Environment
- The Fantastic
- The Mundane
- Dutch Art
- The New Fauves
- The Pictures Generation
- The Seasons
- Table
- Table Lamp
- Tablet/Stele
- Tableware
- The Senses
- The Stars Art Group (Xing Xing)
- The Sublime
- Tibetan Art
- Timber Frame Construction
- Time
- Time-Lapse Cinematography
- Timekeeping
- Times of Day
- Tokyo Artists
- Tondo
- Tool
- Topographic Photography
- Traces/Indexes/Implied Presence
- Traditional African Art
- Traditional Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
- Traditional Oceanic Art
- Traditional Photographic Techniques
- Traditional Scroll Painting
- Transavanguardia
- Textile Arts
- Thai Art
- The Abject
- The Aesthetic Movement
- The Afterlife
- The American West
- The Art Market
- The Artist's Studio
- The Blue Rider
- The Body
U
V
W
- Waterscapes
- Website
- West African Art
- Western European Art
- Western Zhou Dynasty
- Whimsical Design
- Wiener Werkstätte
- Women Artists
Y
