Genre painting, where she disappeared?

[mikhael]

Good day! Populate I here the other day at one of the hotels in Abakan with reproductions of a good painter AV Domozhakov on the wall (landscapes), read the posts again in this thread and realized that I was wrong ... Not enough, apparently, demand (commercial demand) on the scene painting. Landscape or a still life can be hung on the wall in the hotels, or anywhere else in public. A genre thing is not really something to hang. I think it would be contrary to the canons of modern design.
After all, why has experienced a flourishing genre, for example, in the Netherlands in the 17th century. This painting was in demand, and the demand for those times quite massive, on the part of ordinary citizens in fact, able to afford it. Now this is not, that is, interest, yes, there is, but few people are willing to pay for it. And write "on the table" who want to ...

Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky; 2568821"

Do not disappeared genre painting.
Here it is, enjoy:

Thank you of course, but in my opinion, this painting is not very high. Enjoy it does not work. Pictures from the "tandem" of course funny, but it is rather a political banter, in terms of painting does not represent anything special. (A purely plot I would prefer to see this "couple" in chess in circumstances not so, well, well off.) Well, not disappeared genre painting, but what you see - it's more a pristeb /funny, artistically uninteresting .

As for photorealism, I have mixed feelings for him. On the one hand, this detached "photographic" view of reality is quite interesting in itself. But when it is a literal character ... Well, I can not help feeling the superficiality of such a painting. Somehow I just aesthetically accept it with great difficulty. After all, why write so if there is a camera? Especially the photo, photography (with all due respect to him) was never able to achieve the artistic depths that are available painting. So why the artist to emulate the picture? .. I do not understand. That is, of course, when I see is you can not help but marvel at the art. But the question "why" is ...