Genre
English Meaning
A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.
- A type or class: "Emaciated famine victims ... on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent” ( Helen Kitchen).
- A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content: "his six String Quartets ... the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's” ( Time).
- A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life.