Also known as
  • petit genre,
  • scènes de genre,
  • scenes of everyday life,
  • genre works
Genre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes. Such representations may be realistic, imagined, or romanticized by the artist. Some variations of the term genre works specify the medium or type of visual work, as in genre painting, genre prints, genre photographs, and so on. Genre painting, also... full article at wikipedia
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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006
Last edited by krsalis about 3 hours ago
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