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Genre painters get their subjects from the ground level. These artists search the life of the ordinary people and choose
their subjects. They love painting people working in their daily routine. The works of master genre painters are a feast to the eyes of those who love paintings and the reality.
This style of paintings is also called genre scenes or genre views, the life of the people as seen by the genre artists. These paintings are pictorial representations of the images that are made in the painters’ mind-scape. These images include scenes or events from everyday life, such as running markets, common men's domestic settings, their interiors, the lay men's parties, inn scenes, and the street scenes. The genre painting artists are free to use their imaginations; as such representations may be realistic, imagined, or romanticized. The master painter Vermeer had painted those moments of life wherein one feels alone and immersed in one’s thoughts. The depiction of thoughts, even if involved in domestic work, was his trade mark pin the genre paintings.
The painting of those people who did acts, like milkmaid’s work or carpentry or masonry, was never a subject for the painters who lived in west. Subjects chosen by Vermeer were the marked departure from the main road followed by the other painters. Before him, most of the paintings had a religious feel or pretext at least. Vermeer’s paintings depicting common people doing their day to day works were without religious pretext.
Published: September 19, 2009
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