Rococo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rococo (less commonly roccoco ) is a style of 18th century French art and interior design. Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, orna...
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FRENCH AND ITALIAN PAINTING OF THE 18TH CENTURY ... The S curve of this rococo style was incorporated in paintings such as the fêtes galantes of Antoine Watteau, which showed pleasure-seeking ladies and gentlemen socializing in a pastoral setting.
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Other representative paintings of the Rococo were Watteau’s, Pilgrimage to Cythera. The painting represents a group of happy go lucky people starting a pilgrimage to Cythera (the city were Venus was born) in search of love.
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Poussin, Landscape with the Burial of Phocion, 1648. Rubens, Le Chateau de Steen, c. 1636. ... Rubens, Garden of Love, c. 1638. Antoine Watteau (1648-1721), A Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717. ... ROCOCO PAINTING IN FRANCE: WATTEAU, FRAGONARD, AND CHARDIN...
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The exuberance of The Swing has come to epitomize Rococo painting. It depicts a fashionably dressed lady revealing her charms to her lover, carefully positioned in a bed of roses; the lady's husband is an unwitting accomplice to this act of amorous intrigue.
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Rococo Art and the Beginning of Its Rejection ... Rococo art is also a style which reveals an exceptionally strong interest in creating illusionistic scenes, especially in architecture, an interest which leads to the cultivation of the interior ... New Portraits: The Transition from Rococo to Grand Manner Portrait Painting...
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Rococo Art: List of artists and index to where their art can be viewed at art museums worldwide. ... Artists by Movement: Rococo Art ... Rococo Art succeeded Baroque Art in Europe. It was most popular in France, and is generally associated with the reign of King Louis XV (1715-1774). It is a light, elaborate and decorative style...
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In churches such as Vierzehnheiligen (1743-72) by Balthasar Neumann, the Baroque qualities of spatial variety and of architecture, sculpture, and painting working together are taken up in a breathtakingly light and exuberant manner. ... Themes > Arts > Painting > Art in 18th-Century Europe > The Age of Rococo > Rococo Style...
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