| Property |
Value |
| @id | the:CrowdScene |
| type | rdfs:Resource, vad:VisualAnalysis, vad:VisualArts, skos:Concept, vad:Art |
| broader | the:Interpretation, the:FormalAnalysis, the:SubjectMatter, the:visualArtTerm |
| definition | A composition in which a gathering of people in a public space constitutes the primary human subject, distinct from portraiture (individual focus) or staffage (figures as scale markers). The crowd itself — its density, movement, color, and social texture — is the subject. |
| editorial note | Source: 20260309. |
| inScheme | the:WatercolorCriticismScheme |
| label | Crowd Scene |
| narrower | the:PublicGathering |
| related | the:MiddleBandDominance, the:GesturalFigures, the:KineticFigure, the:ContemplativeWitnessPosition, the:Staffage, the:PublicGathering, the:HumanActivityFrieze |
| scope note | Distinguished from staffage by the degree of attention given to the crowd as collective subject; from figure painting by the absence of individual psychological focus. |
| skos:altLabel | Social Field, Figure Group |