1. Different concepts
1. Genre
refers to the types and styles of all works of art, and its artistic structure has a certain stable form in history, which developed as art reflected the diversity of reality and the aesthetic tasks put forward by artists in works.
2. Theme
has broad and narrow concepts. "Theme" in a broad sense refers to some areas of social life and some aspects of social phenomena reflected in literary and artistic works. "Subject matter" in a narrow sense. It refers to a complete set of life phenomena that constitute the content of a "narrative" literary work, which is generally composed of the "three elements" of characters, environment and plot.
Second, the classification is different
1. Theme
Theme is the content of poetry, such as frontier poems, pastoral poems, poems about the past, poems about things, poems about palace grievances, love poems, etc.
2. genre
1) article genre: narrative, expository, argumentative, practical, poetry, prose, novel and drama.
2) Painting genre: landscape painting, portrait painting, still life painting, genre painting, war painting, theme painting, etc.
3) Sculpture genres: portraits, animal images, customs, history, patterns, commemorative sculptures, etc.
4) Dance genres: folk dance, classical dance, national dance, acrobatic dance, rhythmic modeling dance, etc.
5) film genre: feature film, documentary film, news film, drama film, comedy film, musical drama film, art documentary film, etc.
6) Music genre: symphony, sonata, ode, romance, song, etc. Architectural genre: palaces, cultural facilities, houses, factories, etc.
Third, the scope is different
1. The scope of the theme
is second to the genre, which refers to a set of complete and concrete living materials extracted on the basis of the material to form an artistic image and reflect the theme, that is, the social life written into the work.
2. Genre
has a wide range, reflecting the characteristics of the times, people's lifestyles and behaviors.
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