| Property |
Value |
| @id | the:CrowdScene |
| type | Art, Concept, Resource, Visual Analysis, Visual Arts |
| broader | Formal Analysis, Interpretation, Subject Matter, visual art term |
| 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 | Watercolor Criticism Scheme |
| label | Crowd Scene |
| narrower | Public Gathering |
| related | Contemplative Witness Position, Gestural figures, Human Activity Frieze, Kinetic Figure, Middle Band Dominance, Public Gathering, Staffage |
| 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 |