c. 1715 - 1774
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Rococo Art & Architecture. c. 1715 - 1774. “Rococo Art was as decorative and nonfunctional as the effete aristocracy that embraced it.”. Light, elaborate, decorative style. Centered in France & associated with Louis XV. Pastels, non-serious subject matter. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
c. 1715 - 1774
“Rococo Art was as decorative and
nonfunctional as the effete aristocracy that embraced it.”
► Light, elaborate, decorative style.►Centered in France & associated with Louis XV.► Pastels, non-serious subject matter.► A backlash to the darkness of the Baroque --> less formal & grandiose.► Often portrays the lifestyle of the nobility. “Fete galante”► Eventually replaced by Neo-Classicism, the artistic style of the American & French Revolutions.
Louis XV
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
“Pilgrimage to Cythera”
“The Pleasures of the Ball”
“The Pleasures of Life”
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Swing
The See-Saw
Fragonard
From “The
Progress of Love”,
“The Stolen Kiss”
From “The Progress of Love”
“Love Crowned”
François Boucher
“La Toilette”
“The Marquis de Pompadou
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“Leda and the Swan”
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842)
Madamdu
Barry
MarieAntoinette
“Blue Boy” & “Pinkie”Thomas Gainsborough
“Portrait of a Lady in Blue”
Thomas Gainsboro
ugh
Late 1770s
“Mary,Countess
Howe”
Thomas Gainsboro
ugh
Late 1760
Sans Souci, Frederick the Great’s Palace in Potsdam
Germany
Sans Souci,
Frederick’s Music Room
Rococo Room,Frick Museum
Arts & Sciences
Boucher
Rococo Chairs