Rococo art
I've discussed rococo art many times before. Rococo art represents the aesthetic taste of the court nobility, an art that reflects the interests of high society. It is only at this time that the nobility has begun to decline, they only have the luxury of life, the enjoyment of desire, the temptation of eroticism, whether it is a man or a woman, the old nobles at this time have shown an infinite desire for lust.
Rococo art pays attention to ostentatiousness, deliberateness, luxury, luxury, hedonism, exaggeration, glitz and flamboyance. From the aesthetic taste, it can be seen that the decline of the old aristocracy has become the trend of the times, and finally only the ostentatious aristocratic life is left, the paper drunk gold fan, the night song, and the greed of indulging in carnal desires.
Rococo's aesthetic taste is also fully reflected in social life, including the field of art, painting, architecture, sculpture, clothing, literature, etc., of which the representative figures in the field of painting are Huato, Fragonard and Boucher. They took the festivals, gatherings, baths, dances, love, and men's and women's meetings of the upper class as the main content, and vividly showed the aesthetic tastes of the aristocratic women of the French court at that time, the extravagant life of the aristocratic society, the desire for material enjoyment, and the empty and exaggerated spiritual life of the upper class.
Huato and Yayan paintings
Jean-Antoine Watteau was a representative of the 18th-century Rococo art of painting, with great influence, and he most admired Rubens, but he was different from Rubens. Rubens is a representative of baroque painting art, and Huato is a representative of Rococo painting art.
Unlike other Rococo painters, Hua Tuo also has a realist emotion in it. Although his paintings depict scenes of the luxurious life of the court nobles, we can feel the traces of sorrow and sorrow on the faces of the old nobles from his pictures and the expressions of the old nobles, and the infinite sorrow and confusion in the joyful pictures. His paintings are a true portrayal of the world of the decline of the nobility at that time, reflecting the decline of the old aristocracy.
The "Yayan Painting" is specifically used to describe Huato's paintings, and the representative work of Huatuo Yayan paintings is "Zhoufa Xitus Island".
《Zhoufa West Moss Island》
"Zhoufa West Moss Island" is Huato's immortal masterpiece, created in 1710. It took him two years to complete the work. Depicts a group of aristocratic men and women, dreaming of having a carefree love paradise. The painting earned Joato the title of academician of the Royal French Academy of Painting and Sculpture.
Fragonard
Fragonard is another exponent of rococo painting in the 18th century. He was born into a middle-class family in France, where he studied under Chardin, Wanglo and Boucher. He was engaged in the painting of history in his early years, and then began to paint works expressing the themes of love and intimate life, and during the outbreak of the French Revolution, Fragonard also created some genre paintings in the style of civic realism. Of course, his highest achievement was Rococo's aesthetically interesting paintings. For example, "Swing" and "Stealing Kisses".
"Swing"
The Swing is one of the most emblematic works of Rococo painting in the 18th century. It depicts a nobleman and a lover couple playing in the dense jungle. The young noblewoman was swinging on the swing, her eyes full of teasing, and she deliberately kicked her shoes into the woods to tease the nobles. The nobles sit in the lower left corner of the painting, admiring the legs under the hem of the mistress's skirt. The mistress's husband pushes the swing in the hidden place of the painting, and the husband's position cannot see the nobleman, but instead looks at his wife swinging with a smile.
"Stealing a Kiss"
The painting depicts a young woman sneaking into a side room at a ball to have a hasty kiss with her lover. Flagunard uses unparalleled painting techniques to delicately depict the texture and luster of the young woman's silk dress with the characteristic texture of satin and the soft and transparent texture of the light gauze scarf, and even the small round table in the room is depicted with lacquered wood polish, not to mention the wonderful details of the wrinkles of the clothes presented by the male and female protagonists with the posture of the body. The whole picture reveals the characteristics of lightness and pleasure.
Boucher
If Huato is the founding father of Rococo painting art, then Boucher represents the peak of Rococo painting art. Like Huato, the early Boucher was influenced by the Baroque master Rubens, who later transformed into a master of Rococo painting.
Madame de Pompadour
Madame Pompadour's left hand is leaning on an embroidered pillow, her right hand is holding a book of poems that is being read, her face is facing forward to the right, and she is leaning on the bed.
Madame de Pompadour was the mistress of Louis XV, and she possessed unparalleled beauty and outstanding talent. Even as her beauty faded with the passage of time, she could still hold on to the king's favor.
Madame de Pompadour was greatly appreciated by Madame de Boucher and was strongly funded by her. On the recommendation of Madame de Pompadour, Boucher soon became the "Chief Painter of the King" and was appointed President of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
They are like-minded, not only superior and subordinate relations, but also close friends, they are recognized as the two main forces that promote the development of Rococo art, one is the protector of culture and art who is in power, the other is a famous painter in the sky, the exchanges and cooperation between them, Rococo painting art has reached its peak, and Boucher's painting has witnessed the glory of Rococo's mature period.
But with the bourgeois revolution and the disappearance of Madame de Pompadour, Rococo art gradually declined. It is not so much the decline of Rococo art as the decline of the old aristocracy.
Creative background
Rococo art was the aesthetic taste of the old nobility and represented the interests of the old nobility. In 18th-century France, the new wealthy bourgeoisie continued to rise, and the wealth they held in their hands continued to erode the interests of the old aristocracy. Even if the old nobles knew that their interests were being eroded little by little, they were powerless. Instead, they need wealth in the hands of the newly wealthy bourgeoisie to sustain their extravagant pleasures.
So the old aristocracy and the new rich bourgeoisie are constantly married, and the new rich bourgeoisie also needs the power in the hands of the old nobles to protect their wealth, and at the same time rely on the old nobles to sell their titles, and then obtain the same status as the old nobles.
So the interests of the two became more and more similar, and the new wealthy bourgeoisie imitated the way of life of the old aristocracy, squandered the wealth in its hands, enjoyed a life of luxury, and constantly satisfied itself, especially sexual desire and woman's desire.