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Rococo Art is a style of art from the 18th Century that is closely associated with the Acien Regime courts of Louis XV and XVI. Rococo is a development from the Baroque style in art from the 17th Century. Like the Baroque, the Rococo was not just a style of painting, but of sculpture and architecture as well. Instead of the dark chiascuro of the Baroque style, Rococo paintings regail in the bright light of spring and summer. While the Baroque might be characterized by the flourish, the Rococo is characterized by the curlicue. The Rococo went out of style with the French Revolution and was supplanted by the Neo-Classical style. Important Rococo painters included Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Francois Boucher (1703-1770), and Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806).
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Jean-Antoine Watteau was born in 1684 in Valenciennes, France. He died in 1721 at the age of 36. He was apprenticed in the studio of a local painter, before leaving for Paris where he studied under the painter Claude Gillot. Unlike Boucher and Fragonard, Watteau was never a favorite of the royal court, but painted largely for the growing upper middle classes in Paris. While the tone of the later Rococo painters was one of frivolity, Watteau's work elicits a lyricism that is closer to melancholy. [More...]
Francois Boucher was born in 1703 in Paris, France. He died 1770 at the age of 66, also in Paris. Perhaps no artist better captures the licentious character of 17th century society of the French royal court. His primary artistic influences were the works of Peter Paul Rubens and Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). [More...]
Jean-Honore Fragonard was born in 1732 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France. He died in Paris in 1806 at the age of 74. He studied art first under Jean-Baptiste Chardin (1699-1779) and then under Francois Boucher (1703-1770). While visiting Venice, he was influenced by the works of Giovanni Baptista Tiepolo (1696-1770). He became the favorite painter of the Ancien Regime, selling paintings of sensuous love scenes to and decorating the apartments of the King, royalty, and other aristocrats. [More...]
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Elisabeth of France (1764-94) Called Madame Elizabeth, circa 1782
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- Rococo Art by Artchive.com.
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