#genre art

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: The Toilers of the Sea Artist: Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883) Date: 1873 Genre: genre art Movement: Realism Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 63.5 cm (25 in) high x 79.4 cm (31.3 in) wide Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA

[abnormes]

Spirit, George Roux (1885)

[eirene]

The Death of Cleopatra, 1890

John Collier

[leatherandmossprints]

‘The Quiet Pet’ (detail) by John William Godward, c. 1906.

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Gerard ter Borch (Dutch, 1617–1681), "The Letter", (detail), ca. 1660–65

[from-a-spiders-web]

Reading, 1865 Mosè Bianchi

[galleryofart]

Salome Dancer

Artist: Robert Henri (American, 1865-1929)

Date: 1909

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst, MA, United States

Description

Broad, slashing strokes give powerful shape to this defiant female figure standing with parted legs, a pose more athletic - even pugilistic - than seductive. Her oppositional posturing matched the painter’s contrary aesthetic sensibilities. The Realist painter Henri sought a provocative and timely subject in Salome, the biblical figure who served as her mother’s dutiful pawn in facilitating King Herod’s assassination of John the Baptist. By the late nineteenth century Salome had evolved into a far more aggressive and decadent creature, as witnessed in Oscar Wilde’s notorious play of 1891. That Henri adopted the theme in 1909 suggests his desire to capitalize on Salome’s high currency for controversy, which had been confirmed by the New York Metropolitan Opera’s scandal-provoking performance of Richard Strauss’s Salome (based on Wilde’s play) in 1907. The gleam of amusement that enhances Salome’s haughty expression slyly evokes her complicity in constructing Henri’s own reputation as a radical painter.

[classic-art-favourites]

Merchant's Wife at Tea by Boris Kustodiev, 1918.

[liturgical-agenda]

Laughing Girl, 1882 by Raffaello Sorbi

[jeannepompadour]

"Stylish women strolling" by Basile Lemeunier, 1900

[lionofchaeronea]

Women Watching Stars, Ōta Chōu, 1936

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Pearl

Artist: Frederick Sandys (British, 1829–1904)

Date: By 1865

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private collection

[eirene]

Bath time, 1897 Virgilio Tojetti

[leatherandmossprints]

‘View of the Salon Carré at the Louvre’ by Alexandre Brun, c. 1880.

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Gerard ter Borch (Dutch, 1617–1681), "The Music Lesson" (detail), ca. 1668