“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 Pompadour”
“Leda and the Swan”
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755– 1842)
Madam du Barry
Marie Antoinette
“Blue Boy” & “Pinkie” Thomas Gainsborough
“Portrait of a Lady in Blue” Thomas Gainsborough Late 1770 s
“Mary, Countess Howe” Thomas Gainsborough Late 1760
Sans Souci, Frederick the Great’s Palace in Potsdam Germany