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2. Genre painting - Wikipedia

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   Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. [1] One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached either individually or collectively, thus distinguishing it from history paintings (also called ...

3. Genre art - Wikipedia

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   Some variations of the term genre art specify the medium or type of visual work, as in genre painting, genre prints, genre photographs, and so on. The following concentrates on painting, but genre motifs were also extremely popular in many forms of the decorative arts , especially from the Rococo of the early 18th century onwards.

4. Hierarchy of genres - Wikipedia

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   Genre paintings—neither ideal in style, nor elevated in subject—were admired for their skill, ingenuity, and even humour, but never confused with high art. The hierarchy of genres also had a corresponding hierarchy of formats: large format for history paintings, small format for still lifes.

5. Category:Genre paintings - Wikipedia

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   Genre paintings depict aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. Genre painting is one of the genres in the hierarchy of genres. Before categorizing a work here, it may be useful to confirm that the artist was a genre painter/that the period in which the work was made would unambiguously consider the ...

6. Category:Visual arts genres - Wikipedia

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   Figure painting; Fine-art photography; Folk art ... Funerary art; G. Generative art; Genre art; Genre painting; Gesamtkunstwerk; Gifted art; Glitch art; Gothic ...

7. Painting - Wikipedia

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   The term is primarily applied to paintings from the United States art movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As a full-fledged art movement, Photorealism evolved from Pop Art [70] [71] [72] and as a counter to Abstract Expressionism. Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high-resolution photograph.