ROCOCO -1715-1789
-AGE OF LOUIS XV
-CENTERED IN FRANCE (THE ART CENTER OF THE WORLD)
-PATRONS WERE FRENCH ARISTOCRATS
-THOSE PREVIOUSLY LIVING AT COURT OF VERSAILLES
-LOUIS XIV DIED IN 1715 - ARISTOCRATS RETURNED HOME WITH RELIEF
GERSAINT'S SIGNBOARD
-shows a Parisian art gallery
-painting was an advertisement sign for the art gallery
-shows aristocratic customers shopping for art - decorative art
-also included: workers packing away portrait of Louis XIV
-symbol - end of an era
-end of Baroque
ROCOCO TRAITS:
1. DECORATIVE - LITERALY THEY BOUGHT ART TO DECORATE THEIR HOMES
2. MOOD IS MORE RELAXED & CASUAL THAN BAROQUE - NOT AS GRAND
3. PASTEL COLORS
4. SOFT, FEATHERY BRUSHSTROKES
5. VERY FEMININE
IE, PASTEL COLORS
DAINTY, GIRLY FIGURES
WOMEN FEATURED AS THE MAIN ATTRACTION
6. LIGHT-HEARTED SUBJECTS
a) "fete galante" - aristocrats frolicking in nature
b) love and romance
c) naughty misbehavior
d) humor
7. ENGLISH GARDENS
-A GARDEN THAT LOOKS UNPLANNED - GROWS SEEMINGLY FREE
PILGRIMAGE OF CYTHERA
-BY ANTOINE WATTEAU
-Cythera is Venus' island of love
-shows a fete galante - aristocrats who have sailed to the island
for an afternoon of flirtaceous romance
-very feminine - tiny delicate figures
-pastel colors, soft brushwork
-English garden setting
-purpose is simply to please the eye - to be decorative
**TEST SLIDE
THE SWING, AKA THE HAPPY ACCIDENT OF THE SWING
FRAGONARD
-Fete galante
-lady is the star - dressed in pink, frilly, charming
-English garden
-nature growing free
-naughty - secret admirer
-humorous - not really a secret
-humorous - secret admirer is being compared to the yappy dog
-kicked off her show for him to catch = "the happy accident"
ROCOCO PERIOD PERIOD ENDED 1789 - B/C FRENCH REVOLUTION
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