In today’s class we disscued 18th c. art, particularly the Rococo period in France and the transitional period that followed it. Rococo art began with the death of Louis XIV and the subsequent succession of Louis XV. Under the new king, the nobility gained back much of the power they had lost under Louis XIV and began to move out of Versaille and into Paris. They lived primarily in modest townhouses in Paris which would have plain exteriors, but they paired this with lavish and highly decorated interior. The decoration style is quite similar to that of the Palace of Versaille with lots of gilding and ornate furnate, but these spaces are much more intimate and clearly meant to be functional and adaptable. These homes were called “h\u00f4tel particular” and mark a shift in French archetetcure from an emphasis on the facade to the interior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The nobility also became major patrons of the arts in France commissioned works to decoarte their lavish townhouses or the walls of salons. These works depicted primarily aristocratic individuals, and often in nature. Watteau’s A Pilgrimage to Cythera<\/em> is a hallmark piece of this era. The work done in a very painterly style with the heavy blending which makes the figures and the background mesh together in a dreamy haze. Watteau also uses pastel colors, such as light pinks and yellows, which pop against the cool green landscape, but are not necessarily very vibrant or bold. Watteau uses light to draw the eye to certain features rather than bright colors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In today’s class we disscued 18th c. art, particularly the Rococo period in France and the transitional period that followed it. Rococo art began with the death of Louis XIV and the subsequent succession of Louis XV. Under the new king, the nobility gained back much of the power they had lost under Louis XIV […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}