Rococo: The Arts
Discovering the Rococo Aesthetic
- Highly ornate and decorated
- Light and airy preference for pastel hues
- Frivolous rather than serious
- Rococo vs Baroque
- Both highly ornate
- Rococo rejection of the Baroque contortion
- Baroque complexity replaced with airy simplicity
- The full-body mature woman replaced with the slender girlish form
- Baroque masculinity replaced by Rococo femininity
- The politics of the Rococo
- Ostentatious decoration becomes a metaphor for the Aristocracy
- The chasm between Bourgeois and Aristocratic values grows more apparent
Painters 
- Watteau
- Pastel Color
- Brush strokes and distinct modeling of drapery
- Arraignment of elegance rather than Baroque dynamism
- Fragonard
- The playful slender girlish form
- Playful risqué eroticism
- Nature and the environment conforms to the Rococo pallet
- Boucher
- The scandalous girlish eroticism
- Venus series drew criticism
- Boudoir paintings
Sculpture
- Clodion
- A terra-cotta (clay) medium rather marble
- Rococo lighthearted playfulness in fully-round
- Often risqué and titillating
Sensibility - A Bourgeois Reaction
- Chardin
- Master of the commonplace and domestic tranquilly
- A Bourgeois reaction to the "decadence"
of the Aristocratic Rococo
- Large areas left untouched and unadorned
- Subdued hues
Humanities
Resource of Mark Hunter
