genre

Examples of genre in the following topics:

• Landscape Art and Interior Painting

  • Landscape and interior genre painting of the Dutch Republic became increasingly sophisticated and realistic in the 17th century.
  • Landscape painting was a major genre in the 17th century Dutch Republic that was inspired by Flemish landscapes of the 16th century, particularly from Antwerp.
  • Jan Both (d. 1652), who had been to Rome and worked with French painter Claude Lorrain, was a leading developer of this sub-genre.
  • Vermeer is a confirmed master of Dutch genre painting known for his interior scenes of middle class life.
  • Evaluate Dutch landscape and interior genre painting in the 17th century

• Categorizing Art

  • A genre is a set of conventions and styles within a particular medium.
  • Genres in music include death metal and rip hop.
  • Genres in painting include still life and pastoral landscape.
  • A particular work of art may blend or combine genres but each genre has a recognizable group of conventions, clichés and tropes.
  • Define form, genre, and style: terms used to categorize the creative arts

• Flemish Painting in the Baroque Period

  • These genres included history, portraiture, genre, landscape, and still life paintings.
  • Genre paintings depict scenes from everyday life and were very common in 17th century Flanders.
  • Many genre artists follow the tradition of Peter Brueghel the Elder in their depiction of the lower classes.
  • The paintings of Adriaen Brouwer, which often show peasants fighting and drinking, serve as an example of Flemish genre painting.
  • Name different genres within the Flemish Baroque and its representative painters

• Themes in Art

  • The term "genre" - differentiated from the specific type of painting known as genre painting - is much used in the history and criticism of visual art, and relates to the discussion of themes in art.
  • Genres are categories of art based on some set of stylistic criteria, and are formed by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones are discontinued.
  • Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.
  • Common genres in painting, for example, include history painting, portrait painting, landscape painting, and still life.

• The Role of Flanders

  • Flemish Baroque painting of the period is distinctive for its use of detailed realism as well as the separation of genres, where artists produced the majority of their work within a single genre.
  • These genres include history, portraiture, genre, still life, religious, and landscape painting.

• Ter Brugghen, van Honthorst, Hals, Leyster

  • Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerrit van Honthorst, Frans Hals, and Judith Leyster were important genre painters of the Dutch Republic.
  • The Utrecht Caravaggisti Hendrick ter Brugghen and Gerrit van Honthorst, as well as Frans Hals and Judith Leyster, were genre painters of the Dutch Republic.
  • Leyster was particularly innovative in her domestic genre scenes.
  • Leyster's subject matter was similar to other genre painters of the period, with the exception that she tended to focus on female subjects.
  • Explain the importance of ter Brugghen, van Honthorst, Hals, and Leyster to genre painting of the Dutch Republic

• Post-Impressionism

  • Post-Impression refers to a genre that rejected the naturalism of Impressionism in favor of using color and form in more expressive manners.
  • Post-Impression refers to a genre of painting that rejected the naturalism of Impressionism, in favor of using color and form in more expressive manners.

• Photorealism

  • Photorealism or super-realism is a genre of art that that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, encompassing painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.
  • Photorealism, also known as super-realism or hyper-realism, is a genre of art that makes use of photography in order to create a highly realistic art work in another medium.

• Art for Aristocrats

  • It focused on scenes from everyday life, including landscapes, still life, and genre painting.
  • Toward the mid-1500s Pieter Aertsen, later followed by his nephew Joachim Beuckelaer, established a type of "monumental still life" featuring large spreads of food with genre figures, and in the background small religious of moral scenes.
  • Like the world landscapes, these represented a typically "Mannerist inversion" of the normal decorum of the hierarchy of genres, giving the "lower" subject matter more space than the "higher".

• Still Life Painting

  • Painters from Leiden, The Hague, and Amsterdam particularly excelled in the genre.
  • Flower paintings were a popular sub-genre of still life and were favored by prominent women artists, such as Maria van Oosterwyck and Rachel Ruysch.
  • Dead game, as well as birds painted live but studied from death, were another sub-genre, as were dead fish, a staple of the Dutch diet.