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Everyday Life Portraits: A Genre Painting Exploration

Explore the world of genre painting capturing everyday life scenes with realism and creative backgrounds. Learn about the history and techniques of this art form to create expressive portrait paintings. Take unique photographs with dramatic lighting, angles, and reflections to inspire your artwork. Experiment with painterly and refined styles while maintaining realistic skin tones. Get inspired by famous genre painters such as Jan Steen and Edward Hopper to develop your own expressive portrait style.

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Everyday Life Portraits: A Genre Painting Exploration

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  1. Genre and genres - Genre painting is the depiction of subjects and scenes from everyday life, ordinary folk and common activities. It achieved its greatest popularity in seventeenth century Holland (the Netherlands) with the works of Jan Steen (1626-1679) and Jan Vermeer (1632-1675).

  2. The word 'genre' is often used in a general way, to denote various types of painting, such as a still life, portrait, history painting or even a genre piece itself. In the latter sense, the term 'genre painting' refers to works in which people are portrayed as they go about their everyday activities in and around the house, in the tavern, or at work. Although many seventeenth-century Dutch genre pieces appear to be painted from life, they were actually done in the artist's studio. Jan Steen Quiringh van BREKELENKAMc. 1620–c. 1668The tailor's workshop 1661 oil on canvas66.0 x 53.0 cmRijksmuseum, Amsterdam

  3. Jan STEEN The Doctor and His Patient

  4. The Morning Toilet1663

  5. Rhetoricians at a Window1662-66

  6. French Genre painting Jean-Honoré Fragonard

  7. Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Stolen Kiss, c. 1786-1788

  8. 19th C French Genre Oil Painting C. Petit

  9. Jean-Honoré Fragonard

  10. Impressionist Genre Paintings

  11. American Genre Painting Farmers Nooning," by William Sidney Mount, oil on canvas, 20 ¼ by 24 ¼ inches, 1836

  12. Ernie BarnesOlympic Boxing

  13. Ernie BarnesLate Night DJ

  14. Norman Rockwell Illustrator

  15. Edward Hopper: American Painter Hopper once said: 'To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.' Edward Hopper: Compartment C, Car

  16. "Chop Suey"

  17. Cape Code Morning

  18. Nighthawks - Edward Hopper

  19. Alice Neel Hartley (1965) Alice Neel, an unshakable original, witnessed a parade of avant-garde movements fromAbstract Expressionism to Conceptual Art, and refused to follow any of them. Instead, she developed a unique, expressive style of portrait painting that captured the psychology of individuals living in New York, from friends and neighbors in Spanish Harlem to celebrities. 

  20. The use of an underpainting: You can establish form through value and allow the underpainting to show through. This is optional. Blue underpainting examples both tight and loose

  21. Sepia (Burnt Sienna or Raw Umber) Underpainting

  22. Student examples to follow

  23. Online Examples to follow

  24. You may choose to paint more painterly (seeing the brushstokes) Or refined/blended, as long as the skin tone remains true and realistic.

  25. You may combine painterly in background and more refined on figure…

  26. You may choose to be expressionistic with color, as long as it stays “realistic” in tone.

  27. BACKGROUND: You can be creative with this painting and you do not need to copy directly from one photo. You may make up a background like the following examples:

  28. Think about what your figure is wearing: perhaps it is in costume!

  29. You will need reference for everything you paint. The artist who took reference for this didn’t have birds flying around the figure’s head. He had to obtain separate reference and piece together in a pleasing way.

  30. Again…you can be creative with your background…

  31. Gustav Klimt You may choose to use blocks of color/pattern in areas like this example, although you are required to paint the skin tones realistically (unlike the examples on left).

  32. Be AWARE! If you do NOT obtain GOOD photo reference, you will NOT receive an A grade. In order to be completely successful with your painting and receive an A grade, you need 1) a crisp, CLEAR photo reference, and 2) a composition that was thought out INCLUDING the background. No zoomed in shots with NO backgrounds accepted. You must have a photo with good: COLOR CONTRAST CLARITY

  33. You are to take several photographs of friends or family members from odd angles. Don’t just take normal, happy photos. Include dramatic lighting and angles to set a different mood. You must include a reflection. Don’t center the picture. Allow things to run off the page. Think of interesting ways to view people such as trapped in a box, under glass tables, putting on make-up with a reflection, etc. You could even think about drawing the real life in color and reflection in black and white or vice-versa. Glue the photos into your sketchbook.

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