{"id":2470,"date":"2024-04-19T01:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T01:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2024-05-21T02:09:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T02:09:54","slug":"4-1-research-journal-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/04\/19\/4-1-research-journal-14\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/1, Research Journal 14"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following Spring Break, April 1st brings us to the beginning of our study of the Rococo period. We see multiple themes of the Rococo period throughout the works we looked at. Most profoundly, though, Jean-Antoine Watteau\u2019s 1717 <em>A Pilgrimage to Cythera <\/em>(fig. 4) reflects Rococo themes of theatricality, illusion, sensuality, nature, and playfulness to create a world of fantasy. Moving on in the class, we looked at Jean-Antoine Watteau&#8217;s <em>Gersaint\u2019s Signboard<\/em> and <em>Seated Young Woman<\/em>, both workings typical of Watteau &#8212; intricate use of light and dark along with details referencing beauty and a sense of sensuality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, we looked at Fran\u00e7ois Boucher, <em>Portrait of Madame de Pompadour<\/em> and Jean-Honor\u00e9 Fragonard, <em>The Swing. The Swing <\/em>in particular presents a baron lying in a pastoral scene below his swinging mistress, with \u201cfantasy, flirtatiousness, and licentiousness\u201d (Janson 22.1) all coming together amid vibrant colors and gentle light. Continuing class, we looked at Jean-Baptiste Honor\u00e9 Chardin, <em>Back from the Market<\/em>, Chardin, <em>Boy Soap Bubbles<\/em>, Chardin, <em>La Brioche<\/em>, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, <em>The Village Bride <\/em>or <em>The Marriage: The Moment When a Father Gives His Son-in-Law a Dowry<\/em>, and lastly, William Hogarth, <em>The Orgy<\/em>, scene III of <em>The Rake\u2019s Progress<\/em>. Ultimately, while I only speak about a few works, the Rococo period provokes  sensuality, drama, a sense of escapism, and wealth, and these themes are portrayed though the works we focused on during class. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Spring Break, April 1st brings us to the beginning of our study of the Rococo period. We see multiple themes of the Rococo period throughout the works we looked at. Most profoundly, though, Jean-Antoine Watteau\u2019s 1717 A Pilgrimage to Cythera (fig. 4) reflects Rococo themes of theatricality, illusion, sensuality, nature, and playfulness to create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17568,"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\/2470"}],"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\/17568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}