genre-painting
1genre painting — n. painting in which subjects or scenes from everyday life are treated realistically * * * Painting of scenes from everyday life, of ordinary people at work or play, depicted in a realistic manner. In the 18th century, the term was used… …
2genre painting — n. painting in which subjects or scenes from everyday life are treated realistically …
3genre painting — noun a genre depicting everyday life • Hypernyms: ↑genre * * * ˈgenre painting 7 [genre painting] noun uncountable …
4genre painting — n. genre scene, kind of painting that portrays everyday life …
5GENRE PAINTING — name given to paintings embracing figures as they appear in ordinary life and in ordinary situations …
6Genre 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 …
7genre — [zhän′rə] n. [Fr < L genus (gen. generis): see GENUS] 1. a kind, or type, as of works of literature, art, etc. 2. GENRE PAINTING adj. designating or of a type of book, film, etc. which is distinguished by subject, theme, or style, as science… …
8painting — /payn ting/, n. 1. a picture or design executed in paints. 2. the act, art, or work of a person who paints. 3. the works of art painted in a particular manner, place, or period: a book on Flemish painting. 4. an instance of covering a surface… …
9painting — Synonyms and related words: acrylic painting, aquarelle, calcimining, canvas, coating, coloring, covering, drawing, easel picture, enameling, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, finger painting, flower painting, fresco, fresco painting,… …
10genre scene — n. genre painting, kind of painting that portrays everyday life …
