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Rococo History
Began in France
King Louis XIV
France was on the rise its power and influence was strong.. A response to the heaviness and richness of Baroque, Rococo was light with more curves-delicate and playful Some see this style as refined and elegant, others judge it as pompous, indulgent and pretentious.
Fete Galante
Artists
Antoine Watteau Francois Boucher Jean-Honor Fragonard Nicolas Lancret
Francois Boucher
Francois Boucher
The Breakfast
Antoine Watteau
Jean-Honor Fragonard
Jean-Honor Fragonard
Nicolas Lancret
Middle Ages (400-1400) Renaissance (1400-1550) Mannerism (1520-1600) Baroque (1600-1700) Rococo (1700-1775) Neoclassicism (1765-1850)
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Neoclassicism history
Age of Enlightenment people began to question everything.
i.e. Do Kings get their power from God? If no, then who gives them this power? Can the same thing take that power away?
Enlighten to shed light on something; to make it clear. The scientific revolution was based on empirical observation, changing the way people thought and what they decided to believe in. There was a return to classical Greek and Roman ideas. These thoughts and ideas were important in both the French and American revolutions.
When have we seen this return to classical thought before??
Art was "to make virtue attractive, vice odious, ridicule forceful; that is the aim of every honest man who takes up the pen, the brush or the chisel. Denis Diderot Neoclassicism was a reaction to the frivolity of Rococo it took itself much more seriously.
Artists
Jacques-Louis David Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Biblical worldview
Rococo very focused on apperance.
Only the very wealthy seemed to be important or even exist in the world.