quadres

Quadres is the Catalan plural noun meaning paintings or pictures, used primarily in art contexts. The singular quadre denotes a single painting or framed image; quadres refers to multiple works or to framed pictures in general. In standard Catalan, quadre can refer to a painting, a drawing, or a decorative panel, depending on region and context; in museums and art criticism, the term usually designates a completed pictorial work on canvas, panel, or other support.

The word occurs in Catalan-language art discourse from medieval times to the present and remains common in galleries, catalogs, and educational materials. The plural quadres is regularly used to describe a set of paintings by an artist or a section within a gallery, for example "quadres de Goya" or "un conjunt de quadres."

The term belongs to a broader Romance-language family of words for framed pictures or paintings; it is cognate with Spanish cuadro and with related terms in other languages, though exact usage and connotation vary by language.

In everyday use, quadres can also appear in more general senses to refer to framed pictures or decorative panels inside homes and buildings, not exclusively fine art.

See also: Pintura, Cuadro, Cadre, Gallery, Art collection, Museum.