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genreParticular kind of work within an art form, differentiated by its structure, content, or style. For instance, the novel is a literary genre and the historical novel is a genre of the novel. The Western is a genre of film, and the symphonic poem is a musical genre. In the visual arts, genre refers to paintings that depict common incidents in the lives of ordinary people. Literary genresIn literature, genres are used to classify texts, which obey common conventions in their structure, content, or style. In its broadest sense, it can be used to divide literature into poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction writing. Genre can describe structures (such as sonnet and limerick), content (such as science fiction and Western), styles (such as lyric and narrative), purpose (such as elegy and sermon), and source (such as folktale).Artistic genresGenre is also a term specifically applied to paintings which depict familiar scenes of everyday life. An early master of genre is Peter Brueghel the Elder; and the peasant life of the Netherlands inspired further examples in the paintings of Teniers and Adriaen Brouwer. Peasant life is also represented in 17th-century France by the brothers Le Nain.The Netherlands provides a wealth of genre pictures of burgher (town) life in the works of Jan Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch, Gabriel Metsu, Gerard Terborch, Jan Steen, and others. Jean-Baptiste Chardin presents Parisian middle-class life in the 18th century; William Hogarth extends genre into a cross-section of society, morally analysed. Various categories are found in English art: rustic, anecdotal and humorous, and animal. Paintings of Parisian life by Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas demonstrate that genre is not necessarily inferior in beauty or quality to pictures with more elevated subject matter. |
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| If they continued to sing like their great predecessor of romantic themes, they were drawn as by a kind of magnetic attraction into the Homeric style and manner of treatment, and became mere echoes of the Homeric voice: in a word, Homer had so completely exhausted the epic genre, that after him further efforts were doomed to be merely conventional. Moreover, I had always drawn sharp distinctions between a game which is de mauvais genre and a game which is permissible to a decent man. It was recognized that a young woman who had taken lessons from Servin was capable of judging the paintings of the Musee conclusively, of making a striking portrait, copying an ancient master, or painting a genre picture. |
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