Practice question · Put in order
Rank the Académie’s genres from most prestigious to least.
- History painting (myth, scripture, antiquity)
- Landscape
- Still life
- Genre scenes of everyday life
- Portraiture
Hints
- The hierarchy assumed art should morally instruct.
- Elevated historical subjects outrank inanimate objects.
Show the answer
- History painting (myth, scripture, antiquity)
- Portraiture
- Genre scenes of everyday life
- Landscape
- Still life
Why
Gods at the top, fruit at the bottom. The whole hierarchy assumed art’s job was moral instruction through elevated subjects, which is exactly the assumption Courbet blew up.
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