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Rococo
Characteristics:
Lightness
Curving serpentine like line (S and C curves) with counter curves turning back on itself
Elegance
Asymmetrical subtle rhythms
Obsessive, excessive and arbitrary ornamentation
Picturesque, whimsical, playful elegant and dainty.
Freely embraced the superficial
Soft pastel and gold colours
Thematic concerns of Rococo:
Love pursued through erotic frivolity
Playful intrigue
Joyful and graceful allegories employing mythical narratives
Anti-spiritual, decadent subject matter
Anti humanistic purity of the Renaissance
A-political
Famous Artists:
Antoine Watteau
Francois Boucher
Etienne-Maurice Falconet
Rococo flourished in English design between 1740 and 1770.
It first appeared in England in silver and engravings of ornament in the 1730s
immigrant artists and craftspeople, including Huguenot refugees from France, such as Paul de Lamerie
