Art that has a subject matter that concerns with everyday life, domestic scenes, sentimental family Relationships, etc.
Genre typically
immediately followed by the word "painting” is most frequently used in art
to mean "a scene of everyday life." A genre painting has a person (or
people) in it doing something. Not a great big important something, either.
Your basic genre painting subject is bound to be plucking a chicken, lighting a
pipe, delousing a child's head or some other equally unglamorous activity.
"Focus
in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A lot of books
by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind."
(Nicholas
Sparks, "How to Learn the Craft," 2002)
"[F]ar
from being merely 'stylistic' devices, genres create effects of reality and
truth, authority and plausibility, which are central to the different ways the
world is understood in the writing of history or of philosophy or of science,
or in painting, or in everyday talk. These effects are not, however, fixed and
stable, since texts--even the simplest and most formulaic--do not 'belong' to
genres but are, rather, uses of them; they prefer not to 'a' genre but to a
field or economy of genres, and their complexity derives from the complexity of
that relation."
(John Frow,
Genre. Taylor & Francis, 2006)
"Traditionally,
the study of literature has been centered on analysis and interpretation in
three genres--poetry, fiction, and drama; the study of creative writing has
also focused on those genres; and composition has become the domain of
nonfiction. We believe that this unnatural separation can be bridged by
acknowledging creative nonfiction as the fourth genre. That is, we think of
creative nonfiction simultaneously as a form of literature, as a goal of
creative writing, and as the aesthetic impulse in composition."
(Robert L.
Root, Jr., and Michael Steinberg, the Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on
Creative Nonfiction. Allyn and Bacon, 1999)
"Genre,
as many students of the subject have observed, functions much like a code of
behavior established between the author and his reader. When we agree to attend
a formal dinner, we tacitly accept the assumption that we will don the
appropriate attire; the host in turn feels an obligation to serve a fairly
elaborate meal and to accompany it with wine rather than, say, offering pizza
and beer. Similarly, when we begin to read a detective novel, we agree to a
willing suspension of disbelief."
The
Difference between Genre and Style
"These
two terms--genre and style--are often loosely used, and perhaps they are not
susceptible to any complete clarification, but for our purposes it will be
useful to make at least a rudimentary distinction between them. Genre refers to
things regularly done and style to a regular way of doing things. In painting,
landscape is a genre and impressionism is a style. Genres are social and
durable; they persist through changes of style. A style is more local, often
personal, as when we speak of Shakespearean comedy as opposed to Jonsonian
comedy or Monet's impressionism as opposed to Renoir's. Both genres and styles,
however, manifest themselves in recurrent patterns or codes that can be
constructed by analyzing a set of individual texts."
(Robert
Scholes, Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English. Yale
University Press, 1985)
"I
mean, whatever you think about the whole superhero movie genre, at least it's
getting people to read the original source material."
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