Paintings depicting scenes of everyday, domestic or social life with no named individual sitter and no religious, mythological or documented-historical narrative, the genre the classical hierarchy and the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus both class as genre painting. Belongs here: depictions of leisure, labor, domestic routine and social gathering among unnamed or generic figures. Does not belong here: a painting of a named, identifiable sitter, which belongs under Portraits, and a painting whose scene illustrates a specific historical or sacred event, which belongs under History and Political Paintings or Religious and Mythological Paintings.
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1. National Core Arts Standards: Visual Arts Introduction
National Coalition for Core Arts StandardsVisual Arts introduction, discipline definition paragraphQuote, Visual Arts introduction, discipline definition paragraph
Visual Arts include the traditional fine arts such as drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture; media arts including film, graphic communications, animation, and emerging technologies; architectural, environmental, and industrial arts such as urban, interior, product, and landscape design; folk arts; and works of art such as ceramics, fibers, jewelry, works in wood, paper, and other materials.
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