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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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   Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, [1] such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, ...

4. 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 ...

5. Hierarchy of genres - Wikipedia

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   After history painting came, in order of decreasing worth: portraits, scenes of everyday life (called scènes de genre, or "genre painting", and also petit genre to contrast it with the grande genre), landscapes, animal painting, and finally still lifes. In his formulation, such paintings were inferior because they were merely reportorial ...

6. Genre - Wikipedia

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   Genre painting is a term for paintings where the main subject features human figures to whom no specific identity attaches – in other words, figures are not portraits, characters from a story, or allegorical personifications. They usually deal with subjects drawn from "everyday life".

7. Fancy picture - Wikipedia

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   Fancy pictures are a sub-genre of genre paintings in 18th-century English art, featuring scenes of everyday life but with an imaginative or storytelling element, usually sentimental. The usage of the term varied, and there was often an overlap with the conversation piece , a type of group portrait showing the subjects engaged in some activity.