1. Works of art collectively.
2. Artistic effect or quality.
3. Artistic pursuits; artistic ability.

ETYM French See Gender.
(French) kind; style; realistic painting of everyday scenes.1. A class of artistic endeavor having a characteristic form or technique.
2. A kind of literary or artistic work.
A particular kind of work within an art form, differentiated by its structure, content, or style. For instance, the novel is a literary genre and the historical novel is a genre of the novel. The Western is a genre of film, and the symphonic poem is a musical genre.
It is also a term specifically applied to paintings which depict familiar scenes of everyday life. An early master of genre is Peter Brueghel the Elder; and the peasant life of the Netherlands inspired further examples in the paintings of Teniers and Brouwer. Peasant life is also represented in 17th century France by the brothers Le Nain. The Netherlands provide a wealth of genre pictures of burgher life in the works of Vermeer, de Hooch, Metsu, Ter Borch, Jan Steen, and others. Chardin presents Parisian middle-class life in the 18th century; Hogarth extends genre into a cross-section of society, morally analyzed. Various categories are found in English art; rustic, anecdotal and humorous, and animal. Paintings of Parisian life by Manet, Renoir, and Degas demonstrate that genre is not necessarily inferior in beauty or quality to pictures with more elevated subject matter. + prikaži više

ETYM Old Eng. stile, French style, Of. also stile, Latin stilus a style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode of expression; probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking instrument, and akin to Eng. stick.
(Homonym: stile).
1. A particular kind (as to appearance).
2. A slender bristlelike or tubular process.
3. The narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma.
In flowers, the part of the carpel bearing the stigma at its tip. In some flowers it is very short or completely lacking, while in others it may be long and slender, positioning the stigma in the most effective place to receive the pollen.
Usually the style withers after fertilization but in certain species, such as rock clematis Clematis verticillaris, it develops into a long feathery plume that aids dispersal of the fruit.
Ancient writing instrument with one sharp and one blunt end; Botany stalklike outgrowth of ovary bearing stigma. + prikaži više

ETYM Latin stylus, or better stilus.
(Irregular plural: styluses, or: styli).
1. A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; SYN. style.
2. A sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player.
Style; phonograph needle; any pointed tracer or indicator.

ETYM French ton, Latin tonus a sound, tone, from Greek tonos a stretching, straining, raising of the voice, pitch, accent, measure or meter, in pl., modes or keys differing in pitch.
In music, the quality of sound—for instance, different strings of a violin may be able to sound the same note (pitch) given certain fingerings, but each string has a different tone. A tone can also be a plainsong melody; it is also the US term (or wholetone) for a note, an interval consisting of two semitones, for example the interval of C–D.
1. A steady sound without overtones; SYN. pure tone.
2. The quality of a person's voice; SYN. tone of voice.
3. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author.
4. A musical interval of two semitones; SYN. whole tone, step, whole step.
5. (Linguistics) A pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages. + prikaži više