What is the meaning of artistic genre?

When people talk about art, they always mention art schools, such as the Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou, the Chang 'an School in China, the French Impressionist School and the Russian Wandering School. It can be said that the style type is also the art genre. Generally speaking, art schools are composed of a group of artists with similar styles. They have something in common in their thoughts and feelings, creative ideas and aesthetic concepts, or in their artistic temperament, range of materials and methods of expression, thus forming an artist group. An art genre can include artists engaged in different kinds and genres of art, or just some artists in an art genre or genre. It can only exist in an era, be active in a period, and can also have a long-term inheritance and continuation.