genre

Examples of genre in the following topics:

• Notes

  • "Gender" is derived from the Old French word genre, meaning "kind of thing".

• 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.

• Introduction to Writing in Business

  • Each genre of business writing carries its own conventions of organization, voice, and audience.
  • Some of the writing genres you will encounter in the business world include the following: resumes and cover letters, proposals, instructions, business and sales letters, emails, business plans, case analyses, memoranda, performance reviews, and professional biographies.
  • The audiences and purposes will vary with each type of writing (and even within genres themselves).

• 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.

• Writing in Different Academic Disciplines

  • Academic writing in a college setting can generally be divided into three main categories or genres: writing in the humanities, writing in the sciences, and writing in business.
  • Each genre has its own specific requirements in terms of style, content, and format.
  • In each genre, the writing focuses on informing readers of new discoveries and assisting them in discovering truth through facts and firm, detailed data.
  • This type of writing is generally concise and includes genres such as lab reports and reviews of scientific literature.

• Rock and Roll

  • The rock music of the 1960s had its roots in rock and roll, but also drew strongly on genres such as blues, folk, jazz, and classical.
  • Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States.
  • Rock music also drew strongly from other genres such as blues and folk, and was influenced by jazz, classical and other musical sources.
  • By the late 1960s, a number of distinct rock music sub-genres emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, and jazz-rock fusion.
  • Other genres that emerged from this scene included progressive rock, which extended the artistic elements; glam rock, which highlighted showmanship and visual style; and the diverse and enduring major sub-genre of heavy metal, which emphasized volume, power and speed.

• Jazz, Blues, and World Music

  • This includes older blended traditions such as rumba and samba, newer but well-established blended genres such as reggae and Afrobeat, and groups with unique experimental sounds borrowing from more than one tradition.
  • Folk and traditional music from around the world is also sometimes included, but the most popular genres in this category tend to be those, such as Flamenco, Hungarian folk, and Celtic music, that are easy for Western-trained ears to understand.