Post on 08-May-2015
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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