Genre painting is the depiction of subjects and scenes from everyday life, ordinary folk and common activities

Bal du moulin de la Galette, 1886Pierre-Auguste Renoir American Gothic, 1930

Grant Wood

The Art of Painting,Jan Vermeer, 1655

The Maids of Honour, Diego Velasquez, 1656, oil on canvas, (318 x 276 cm), Prado Museum, Madrid.

Taras Shevchenko: Peasant Family (1843).Tatiana Yablonskaya, Wedding,1964

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