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genre painting
noun
art specializeduk /ˈʒɑ̃ː.rə ˌpeɪn.tɪŋ//ˈʒɒn.rə ˌpeɪn.tɪŋ/ us /ˈʒɑːn.rə ˌpeɪn.t̬ɪŋ/
[ U ]
a style of painting that represents ordinary people and their activities:
The seventeenth century was the great age of genre painting.
American genre painting had a great influence on Ziegler’s work.
[ C ]
a painting that represents an ordinary person or ordinary people doing something:
Nowadays she is best known for her genre paintings.
The few pieces of his that survive are mainly religious works and genre paintings.
She eventually settled for making a living from genre painting.
Genre painting appealed to the values of the European middle classes.
The gallery displays the Vermeers alongside other genre paintings of the same period.
See also
genre art
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