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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Genre painting"”.
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A regional study of American genre painting from 1830-1880
The dissertation covers the period when genre painting reached its height in Nineteenth Century America. In the true sense of its artistic meaning, the genre painter records everyday scenes from life in a non-historical, impersonal manner. This was the time characterized by the rise of the common …
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The reception of Dutch genre painting in England, 1695-1829
This thesis examines the place of Dutch genre painting in the English theory of art between 1695, when Dryden's translation of Du Fresnoy's De Arte Graphica established it as the quintessential example of bad artistic practice, and 1829, when the obsolescence of this way of thinking was signalled …
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Hellenikotita — Greekness: Constructing Greek Genre Painting, Visualizing National Identity, 1850–1900
… as its multiple dialects. By mid–century, genre painting began to take shape. Eventually it was known in Greek as “<em>ηθογραφία</em> (“<em>ethographia</em>”) or “ethography,” from the word <em>ήθος</em> (ethos) or morals, referring to the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a …
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Intellectualizing the everyday : the genre paintings of Adriaen Brouwer
… (the vine tendrils). Brouwer dwells in his genre scenes on the peculiarities of Dutch culture - its character, institutions, ideas and customs. It is in Brouwer's genre scenes, prized by both Rubens and Rembrandt, that we may note remarkable influences of Holland's new artistic …
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Modern life subjects in British painting 1840-60
A small number of paintings with modern settings and figures in modern dress can be identified in the exhibitions of the 1840s. During the 1850s such pictures became far more common, particularly in the wake of the success of William Powell Frith's outdoor crowd scene, Ramsgate Sands, exhibited at …
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The Lute In Seventeenth-Century Dutch Brothels: A Study of Selected Genre Paintings
<p>A number of important genre paintings from the Dutch Golden Age represent brothel scenes. These include Dirck van Baburen's The Procuress (1622), Hendrik Pot's Vanity (c. 1633), Nicolaus Knüpfer's Brothel Scene (c. 1650), and Frans van Mieris's Brothel Scene (c. 1658). Many of these--indeed all …
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The Furrowed Face: the depiction of the elderly in painting, England and the United States, 1870-1910
… all, was this variation in view reflected in the painting of the elderly in the two countries? This study addresses this question by firstly considering how the elderly are portrayed in genre painting in each country. It then moves on to the world of portraits, looking in more detail at the work …
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Images of the Petrine Era in Russian History Painting
'Images of the Petrine Era in Russian History Painting' examines the changing iconography of Petr I (1672-1725) in nineteenth-century Russian painting, and its relationship with Petr's symbolic role in the cultural debate between the Westernisers and the Slavophiles over the interpretation of the …
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Universal Expositions of the Second Empire: A Study in Art and Politics (Volumes I and II)
… of Industry and Commerce. It treats in depth the painting of France, England, Belgium, and Germany, and the fate of history, genre, and landscape painting during this period. It also examines the development of such modern concepts as paid admission, retrospective shows, the split between popular …
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The European presence in Japanese screen painting of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
… l�J~ MOO. Southern Barbarian folding screen paintings, depicting the arrival of Portuguese merchants and missionaries on Japanese shores. The paintings are classified as kinsei shokifuuzokuga ili:t!t1'.JJ~OO.{~@ (Early Modern Genre Painting) depicting scenes from contemporary life in and …
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George Morland (1763-1804) and the representation of social types
… and trends following the First World War. His paintings contain scenes of rural communities, families, animals, travellers, seaside communities as well as the slave trade, they cover a wide range of eighteenth century social types. Morland lived a ‘bohemian’ lifestyle which allowed him to get …
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Female society portraits: representing the elite woman in eighteenth-century New Spain
Since the early stages of the colonization of Mexico, the production of portraits in this territory had been limited to the representation of prelates, viceroys and other government officials. By 1700, however, the boom in the mining industry extended the production and circulation of portraiture …
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Rokoko - Mode : Rokokorezeption in der deutschen Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts
… Malerei im Rokokokostüm, dem Rokokogenre, einen Platz in ihrem System der Künste ein. <br>In der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts weitet sich die Rokokorezeption zu einer Modewelle aus, die nicht nur die deutschen Kunstzentren überschwemmt, sondern sich als internationales …
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An Art of Translation: French Prints and American Art (1848-1876)
… investments in lavish publications of American paintings destabilized the American approach to the translation of the image and influenced the manner in which both critics and artists conceived of the visual arts as a repository of American national identity. Engravers' lines were more than a …
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Elusive matter, material bodies: American art in the age of electronic mediation, 1865-1918
… modes of creative expression—from landscape and genre paintings to quilts and decorative desk sets—to help translate this elusive process into material form. By approaching these practices as both artistic mediums and communication media (through the lens of media theory and material culture …