Genre Painting

Genre Painting

"Genre painting" or "genre-scenes" refers to pictures that portray ordinary scenes of everyday life. Subjects include domestic settings, interiors, celebrations, tavern scenes, markets and other street situations. Whatever the precise content, the scene is typically portrayed in a non-idealized way, and characters are not endowed with any heroic or dramatic attributes. The foremost example of this category of art was the school of Dutch Realist Genre Painting of the 17th century.


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Famous Genre-Pictures:

 


The Angelus
By Jean-Francois Millet.
Regarded as one of the
greatest modern paintings of
the nineteenth century.

 

The Angelus (1857-9)

 

Description

Name: The Angelus (1857-9)
Artist: Jean-Francois Millet (1814-75)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Type: Genre painting
Location: Musee d'Orsay, Paris


Nighthawks (detail)
By Edward Hopper.
Regarded as one of the
greatest 20th century paintings.

Nighthawks (1942)


Description

Name: Nighthawks (1942)
Artist: Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
Medium: Oil painting on canvas
Genre: Genre painting
Location: Art Institute of Chicago

 

 

 

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-1569)

• Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)
Oil on oak panel, Gemaldegalerie, SMPK, Berlin.
• Hunters in the Snow (1565)
Oil on oak panel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
• Peasant Wedding Feast (1568)
Oil on oak panel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Jan Vermeer (1632-1675)

• The Little Street (c.1657-58)
Oil on canvas, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
• Soldier and a Laughing Girl (c.1658)
Frick Collection, New York.
• The Milkmaid (c.1658-1660)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
• Woman Holding a Balance (1662-3)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
• Woman with a Pearl Necklace (c.1663)
Gemaldegalerie, SMPK, Berlin.
• The Art of Painting: An Allegory (c.1666-73)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
• The Lacemaker (c.1669-1670)
Louvre, Paris.

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)

Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717)
Louvre, Paris; and Charlottenburg, Berlin.

Jean-Francois Millet (1814-75)

• The Angelus (1859)
Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
• Man with a Hoe (1862)
J.Paul Getty Museum, LA.

Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

• Hotel Room (1931)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation, Lugano.
• Nighthawks (1942)
Art Institute of Chicago.