Not exact matches
Approx. 450
important paintings of scenes from history and literature, landscapes and seascapes,
genre scenes, still lives and portraits will be presented.
The
genre paintings will depict the life of the people, including societal class and
important occasions such as Lunar New Year and Chuseok.
Robert Motherwell's A la pintura (To
Painting) is a sumptuous artist's book of aquatint images and letterpress texts, and one of the most
important examples of this
genre.
Portraiture was an
important Elizabethan
painting genre, eminent portait artists being Nicholas Hilliard, Marcus Gheeraerts.
Her critical work has also sparked
important conversations in the
genres of Realism and contemporary
painting and sculpture.
Painting Appearances makes an
important contribution to our understanding of the artist's work within this
genre.
Another
important trend was the production of
genre paintings with humorous portrayals of life, such as Threshing Rice (1780), in which Gim Hongdo (1745 - 1806) depicts a lazing, pipe - smoking farmer overseeing hard - working peasants.
At the Whitney, Goodrich organized many
important exhibitions: American
Genre: The Social Scene in
Paintings and Prints (1935); Ralph Blakelock (1947); Albert Pinkham Rider (1947); Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1948); Edward Hopper (1950); Arshile Gorky (1951), and John Sloan (1952).