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1 Οκτ 2024 · Rococo, style in interior design, the decorative arts, painting, architecture, and sculpture that originated in Paris in the early 18th century. It is characterized by lightness, elegance, and an exuberant use of curving natural forms in ornamentation.
- Rococo Style Summary
Rococo style, or Late Baroque, Style in interior design, the...
- Rococo Style Summary
3 Ιαν 2024 · The main characteristics of Rococo architecture include natural curvy forms, overflowing decoration, and a penchant for asymmetry. While the seemingly chaotic Baroque architecture still maintained a certain order, Rococo completely discarded the rules, striving to use every shape and form available in nature.
Rococo, less commonly Roccoco (/ rəˈkoʊkoʊ / rə-KOH-koh, US also / ˌroʊkəˈkoʊ / ROH-kə-KOH; French: [ʁɔkɔko] or [ʁokoko] ⓘ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe...
Rococo painting represents the expression in painting of an aesthetic movement that flourished in Europe between the early and late 18th century, migrating to America and surviving in some regions until the mid-19th century. The painting of this movement is divided into two sharply differentiated camps.
Rococo was a style of art, especially architecture and decorative art that originated in France. It is marked by elaborate ornamentation with a profusion of scrolls, foliage, and animal forms. Its main period was from the late 1720s to the late 1780s.
Artworks and Artists of Rococo. Progression of Art. 1717. The Embarkation for Cythera. Artist: Jean-Antoine Watteau. This painting depicts a number of amorous couples in elegant aristocratic dress within an idealized pastoral setting on Cythera, the mythical island where Venus, the goddess of love, birthed forth from the sea.
Often described as the final expression of the Baroque movement, it was exceptionally ornamental and theatrical – a style without rules. Compared to the order, refinement and seriousness of the Classical style, Rococo was seen as superficial, degenerate and illogical.
