Rococo represents the artist Boucher's body painting art: no nudity but full of sexiness and desire

François Boucher

francois butcher

1703—1770

French painter, printmaker and designer

Boucher was a painter who took the Rococo style to the extreme.

He was the president of the French Academy of Fine Arts and the chief painter of the Royal Family.

Boucher, born in Paris, was born to the son of a graphic painter. At the age of 12, he won the first prize of the Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts. At the age of 17, he studied under the painter Lemujna. He admired Hua Tuo very much, and he once engraved Hua Tuo's sketches into prints and published a picture album of "A Thousand And One Forms".

Boucher longed for the art mecca of Italy, and went to study at his own expense, but he looked down on the artistic achievements of the Renaissance masters, and he said wildly: "Michelangelo is strangely shaped, Raphael is rigid, and Caravaggio is pitch black." "He was only interested in the art of 17th-century pastoral moods.

When he enters the palace, he discovers that aristocratic men and women do not like God and prefer the love stories of Greek mythology. So Boucher tried his best to cater to them, tirelessly using the paintbrush to depict the flirtation between mars, the god of war, Venus, the goddess of love, the embrace of Hercules and Onfale, and the goddess bathing, beauty makeup and other subjects. This kind of love-talking plot and the white and pink woman's naked body are depicted in exquisite detail, the image resembles a god, and the human body is harmonious and symmetrical, which makes the princes and nobles fall for it. He was able to obtain the title of academician of the Academy of Fine Arts and was promoted to professor.

After studying in Italy for more than four years, his skills improved, and when he returned to Paris, his reputation was so great that he was received by the salons of the noble ladies. By the way, the salon of the noble ladies of the Louis dynasty was a meeting place for famous scholars, politicians, poets, musicians, painters, etc., and it was a supreme honor to be received there.

Because of this relationship, Boucher began to get to know people from all walks of life. He painted both the opera house and the wall hanging fabric pattern. Thus, soon his talents were appreciated by Louis XV's lover, Madame de Pompadour, who painted several portraits of her. Madame de Pompadour was the first beauty of the Louis dynasty and a talented woman. Boucher also designed women's clothes and ornaments for this extravagant and hedonistic beauty, and the patterns designed by Boucher became an example for the noble ladies who entered and left the court at that time.

Boucher is rich in decorative wrists and talents, and his paintings also have decorative elements, but his works are all cold silver tones, although noble and elegant, but do not make people feel intimate.

Russian Plekhanov said: "Elegant sensuality is his muse, which permeates all the works of Boucher." The history of French painting commented on him: "People are dismissive of Boucher's work, probably because there was Huato before him and Flagonar after him, and it is clear that he does not have the profundity of the former, and the intellect and strong joy of the latter." But he is an indispensable link in this chain. He is among the greatest masters as a colorist and painter of light".