genre painting
- noun
- /ˈʒɑːnr ˈpeɪntɪŋ/
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pintura de género
- 33 Nonetheless, the critic believed that genre painting at its most advanced embodied positive attributes that were worth preserving: the independence of narrative, relative informality, and concern with modest, everyday subjects.
- genre painting and landscape
Examples
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The portrayal of different classes in late Chos?n genre paintings may have subtly embedded propagandist rhetoric.
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Critics watched the talented young painter's first steps in the field of genre painting with eager anticipation, but his eventual move toward French Rococo frivolity caused disappointment.
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Monsieur Courbet effectively reduced the work to a simple genre painting of three men and a dog.
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Traditionally, the Chinese court envisioned its territory mostly in the forms of maps and genre paintings.
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Letters and miniatures appear frequently in contemporary genre paintings as tokens of love.
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Go to a museum and you look at a painting, a genre painting or historical painting, which depicts a scene that you think is really quite realistic.
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Linda Nochlin, for one, called The Angelus an example of the development of religious genre painting and thus an indicator of the nineteenth-century concern with contemporary life.
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Within the seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting that was enjoying a revival during the 1860s, the map on the wall often alluded to the absence of a loved one.
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If ice skating before the Gate of St. George signals the emergence of "genre" subjects, Netherlandish Proverbs, Carnival and Lent, and Children's Games have a rightful place as the first "genre" paintings.
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The museum showcased a stunning genre painting that depicted a bustling market filled with ordinary people shopping and socializing.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositionally clear: 'genre' (a category or type) + 'painting' signals a type of painting, so a B1 learner will infer it denotes a category of artwork. However, the conventional art-historical sense — specifically paintings depicting everyday scenes of ordinary people — is specialised knowledge not fully predictable from the parts, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Genre painting uses genre (a French word meaning 'type') plus painting to describe pictures that show everyday people doing ordinary things, like cooking or working. So, the phrase means a painting of 'everyday life' rather than a scene from history or myth.