genre painting

collocation in English

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genre
noun[C]
uk
/ˈʒɑ̃ː.rə/us
/ˈʒɑːn.rə/
a style, especially in the arts, that involves a particular set ...
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painting
noun
uk
/ˈpeɪn.tɪŋ/us
/ˈpeɪn.t̬ɪŋ/
a picture made ...
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(Definition ofgenreandpaintingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Historical subjects were his favourites, but he also achieved success ingenrepainting.
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It is best known forgenrepainting: images of domestic life, views of households, church interiors, courtyards, squares and the streets of that city.
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After early works ofgenrepainting, he developed a personal approach aimed at expressing the range of human feelings through intense female figures.
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A distinctive type of painting, combining elements of the portrait, history, andgenrepaintingwas the tronie.
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His portrait style followed that of hisgenrepaintingand captured the best of an individual as preserved in a moment in time.
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He practicedgenrepainting, portraits, nudes and landscapes, treating the subjects of the daily life and intimists subjects.
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He developed his own style withingenrepainting, and became proficient in portrait painting.
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She excelled in portraiture,genrepainting, and morality painting.
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Pure landscape, like pure still-life orgenrepainting, reflected an aesthetic viewpoint regarded as lacking in moral seriousness.
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For many critics this painting was an example of the success that a woman could obtain within the confines of "genrepainting".
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Here he perfected his ability to paint the human figure and began to specialize in portrait andgenrepainting.
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Although the hierarchy of genres continued to be respected officially,genrepainting, landscape, portrait and still life were extremely fashionable.
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It was in the late 1860s that he took up anecdotalgenrepaintingwith domestic interiors, which came to be his field of specialisation.
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It wasn't until the 1980s, during a resurgence of interest ingenrepainting, that his works were rediscovered.
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The work is more agenrepaintingof an everyday scene than a portrait, and the name of the sitter is not known.
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A subject painting, in contrast to agenrepainting, is idealised or dramatised.
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Genrepaintingand the novel arose together as middle-class art forms and retained close connections until the end of the nineteenth century.
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Paintings were not hung chronologically, but thematically:genrepainting, still lifes, landscapes, cityscapes, biblical, mythological, nudes.
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Although the hierarchy of genres continued to be respected officially,genrepainting, landscape, portrait, and still life were extremely fashionable.
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He later turned to animal, landscape andgenrepainting.
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