Genre Painting

Genre Painting

• Refers to a painting that shows a scene from the everyday life of the artist– Shows normal everyday-type activities– Simple ideas– Routine activities

Norman Rockwell

• A famous American artist and illustrator• Painted lots of genre paintings• His artwork was on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post

Foreground, Middleground, and Background

• Great realistsic artwork shows – Foreground: objects that are in the front-most

part of a picture

– Middleground: objects that are in the middle-most part of a picture

– Background: objects that are in the back-most part of a picture