Rococo Art
-Is an 18th-century artistic movement
and style,
-Including
painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration,
literature, music, and theatre.
- Rococo artists and architects used a
more jocular, florid, and graceful approach to the Baroque.
-Their style was ornate and used light
colours, asymmetrical designs, curves, and gold. Unlike the political Baroque,
the Rococo had playful and witty themes.
Painting
-Though
Rococo originated in the purely decorative arts, the style showed clearly in
painting.
-These
painters used delicate colors and curving forms, decorating their canvases with
cherubs and myths of love.
-Portraiture
was also popular among Rococo painters.
Gustaf Lundberg’s The Toilet of Venus
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s Death of
Hyacinth
Sculpture
-Sculpture
was another area where the Rococo was widely adopted.
- Étienne-Maurice
Falconet (1716–1791)
is widely considered one of the best representatives of French Rococo.
-In
general, this style was best expressed through delicate porcelain sculpture
rather than imposing marble statues.
- The themes of love and gaiety were
reflected in sculpture, as were elements of nature, curving lines and
asymmetry.
-The
sculptor Edmé
Bouchardon represented Cupid engaged in carving his darts of love
from the club of Hercules (illustration); this serves as an excellent symbol of the Rococo
style.
Rococo sculpture
Poetry
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