Arts Appreciation | Rococo Art

Good morning everyone. So we'll be discussing about Rokopo Art today and we will be showing to you on my screen which I got it from slideshare.com. So these were the proponents, these were the authors for this powerpoint presentation. Credits to them. The Rokopo Art we have from Art Cultural Society. So we'll be discussing from what is first Rokopo Art. So from Claude Le Brunais' Manarism, Origin of Baroque, Transformation from Protestants and Roman Catholics. And then we also discussed also during the time that's in our topics, Age of Enlightenment and Kneel Down Now to Rokopo Art. So from Liberalism, Restoration, French Revolution, down to Rokopo. So Rokopo Art is a word which is a combination of a very French word, rocaille, which means stones and co-coils, which means shells, due to reliance on this object as declarative motives. The term will also be a combination of the Italian word barocco, an irregular-shaped pearl, possibly the source of the word baroque, and the French rocaille, a popular form of garland or interior ornamentations using shells and pebbles. This style received harsh criticism and was seen by some to be superficial and poor taste. Especially when compared to Neoplasitism, despite this, it has been praised for its aesthetic qualities. We will know later why it has very good aesthetic qualities. By the end of the 18th century, it was replaced by the neoclassic style. So in 1835, the dictionary of the French academy stated that the word rocopo easily covers the kinds of ornaments, style and design associated with King Louis XV reign and the beginning of that King Louis XVI. Next. In the 18th century, artists, movement and style affected many aspects of the art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration, literature, music, because you cannot really deny the fact that this, in every century, in every age of art, there would be an art that will emerge during that, that will develop. So this rocopo art is developed in the early 18th century in Paris, France, as a reaction against the gender-symmetry and strict regulations of the baroque or baroque, especially of the palace of Versailles. So rocopo artists and architects used a major juggler, florid and graceful approach to the baroque or baroque. So the style was ornate and used light colors as symmetrical So here we have now, so some of the way they pronounce the word baroque, this is supposed to be baroque in American language and also for British, Peru. So the interior decoration of rocopo rooms was designed as total work of art with elegant and ornate furnitures, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture relief wall paintings. So we can really see this kind of designs around our homes, you know, in the furnitures, in our tapestry, anything is part of this one. So it's more on the light colors, asymmetrical design curves, and we have now gold. These were examples of the rocopo art, so we can really depict the color, the light colors, and the color gold. During those times, or we have here developing the rocopo, during these times in 1599 to 1667, it is usually thought of developing first in the decorative arts and interior design. Its origins lie in the late baroque or architectural work of Borromini, mostly in Rome but also in Vienna, Prague, Lisbon, and Paris. So an exotic but in some ways more formal type of rocopo appeared in France where King Louis XIV, rather, that fashion brought a change in a poor artist and generally artistic fashion. So by the end of the king's long reign with King Louis XIV, court life moved away from Versailles and this artistic change became well established first in the royal palace and then throughout French high society. So the 1730s represented the height of rocopo development in France. So the style had spread beyond architecture and furniture to painting and sculpture, exemplified by the works of Antoinette Poit and Franciois Boucher. So these were just examples. Now we can really depict the colored gold and light colors in this example rocopo art. 17th and 18th centuries was some residence of the Persian kings and German emperors. During also the development of rocopo, we have emerged two artists which is Voltaire and John David. So the beginning for this one to begin to voice the criticisms of the art, they became bolder. The artists during that time became bold to what they wanted to do, what they wanted to give critic to a certain piece of art. And then they also used some shells, ragan, reeds, and concrete in contemporary materials. So from 1785, rocopo had passed out for a fashion in France and replaced by the older and serious of neoclassical artists like Jack, Louis, David. Also during the development of rocopo art, we have enlightenment and courage of the corruption of Louis the 16th and the aristocracy in France leading to the beginning of the French revolution in 1789. So in 1792, Louis the 16th and his wife Henri Antoinette were beheaded along with the thousands of the other aristocrats believed to be loyal to the monarchy. So rocopo not only confined the decorative arts but also affected the living of French high society, which is focused on the clothing and also the fashion and the culture. King Louis the 14th turned France into a beacon of hope. So 30 years after rocopo perished, the French revolution shook France and shattered its class system. So it became the great European revolution of the 18th century that shaped our modern political world. So because during the time because of rocopo art, they were all again, they made this protest against, of course, the system that they had and it made everyone made a change in the system of government. So the French revolution heralded a new era with no monarchy, no aristocracy, and it disclosed the final chapter of the ancient regime, that lasted more than a thousand years. So it caused a major cultural shift, not only in the visual art, also in fashion and hairstyle. So even shoes changed radically. When you see a lot of pictures from the olden times, you can really depict that, they were really into fashion, style, and arts. Those terms are intertwined with each other. So we have interventions in rocopo, the discovery of oxygen, hydrogen, metric system, cataract surgery, stream engine by James Watt, steamboat, hot air balloon, parachute, French press, method to make coffee, military guard uniform, clothing, telegraph, modern pencil, paper machine, piano instrument, opera, electricity by Benjamin Black. So we can really depict that this rocopo art has a lot of things to change in our life, which is still, we have been using it until today. Here is something to do with music, painting, sculpture. So in rocopo, it was divided into, we have here six, music, painting, sculpture, furniture, garden, and architecture, interior. So in interior design, rocopo is fully in control of sportive and classic and sculptural forms, are expressed with abstract ornaments, using flaming, leafy or shell-like textures in a symmetrical, sweeps and flourishes and broken curves, intimate rocopo interiors, suppressed architectonic divisions of architrave, trees and cornice expressed in the materials like carved wood and stucco. The wall, ceiling, furnitures and works of metal and porcelain press present a unified ensemble. The rocopo palette is softer and tailored in the richer primary colors and dark tonalities favored in the rocopo taste, like, for example, blue, sky blue, pink, baby pink, and a more lighter color. So faster work, POP and ceiling was started in this era by Italians with artists like Bogotti and Art Therese. In general, rocopo is an interior style, you know, interiors, because the wealthy and aristocracy moved back to Paris from Brazil. Paris was already built up and so rather than engaging in major architectural additions, they simply renovated the interiors of existing buildings. They were more focused on the interior design, not on the external factors or the physical appearance of the whole building. It's so simple when you when you see those buildings. But when you follow that, that's the interior. The lighter tones, the colored gold, the stars, the curve on this wall, it's engraved. It's also been depicted in some churches, you know, this rocopo art. In furnitures and decorative objects, French rocopo art was at home in Dernsk. The metalwork, porcelain figures, and especially furnitures rose to new pre-eminence as the French upper classes sought to outfit their homes in their now fashionable style. So during the rocopo period, furniture was light-hearted physically and visually. The idea of furnitures had evolved to a symbol of status and took on a role in comfort and versatility. Mahogany was widely used in furniture construction due to its strength resulting in the absence of stretchers as seen on many chairs. Example, still in furniture and decorative objects, furniture could be easily moved around before gatherings and many special homes came to be such as the futile chair, the voyager's chair, and the burger on gondola. Changes in design of these chairs ranges from cushioned, detached arms, lengthening of the cushion back, and a loose set cushion. The furniture was also freestanding instead of being anchored by the wall. Paper leg stretchers have all been seamlessly integrated and the snot of the stretchers shows the asymmetrical contrast that was a rocopo innovation. Wood cravings less robust and naturalistic and less exuberant in a mixture of natural with artificial forms of all kinds. You have plant motifs, motifs, masks, patches, paintings, precious stones. You can really see on the example chair on the right how they usually made this kind of chair. Abstract and symmetrical rocopo were here in this one embedded integrated in their chairs on the arms of it, of the chairs, on the bed. This is more on the detail, more detailed here. So it's more, it really depicts the royalty during that time. How people live during that time. In the painting, the rocopo originated in their early decorative arts. The style showed clearly in painting. So these painters used delicate colors and curving forms. Decorating their canvases with cherubs and myths of love. The portraiture was also popular among rocopo painters. Portraiture. So painters turned from grand heavy works to sensual surface delights of color and life from weighty religious and historical subjects. Though these were never ignored completely to more intimate mythological themes, views of daily life and portraiture. So they're more on small pieces, the regular sizes of painting. The popularity of the rocopo style was inspired in part of the work of the celebrated painter Antoine Poitou. So Antoinette, Antoine, elegant painting perfectly embodied the rocopo ideal of grace and plain tones. In addition, the painter's composition often were asymmetrical. The style's asymmetry in turn became an important characteristic of rocopo art and design. You can see it in this painting over here. They still love it. It's just to work on the light colors. We also have this artist, Francis Beauchamp and Jean-Bernard Fragonard, also created artists' confections that dazzle viewers with their charm and sophistication. Best done for his fashionable, frivolous depiction of rosy-cheeked aristocratic ladies and idealist mythological subjects. Because in rocopo, most of their subjects are still gods and goddesses or biblical mythological subjects. You would hear angels, no? All paintings by Beauchamp, Jean, Fragonard in this one. So Fragonard's work reflects a carefree world enjoyed by friends during their rocopo periods. The colors are bright and shiny and the brush strokes are very delicate. He has a great imagination with refinement that combines for a threaded canvas. You can see it down here. Looking into the color from darker tones over here, then going back to the lighter tones, which is here, which is centered for the subject of this painting. Here also, from darker tones to lighter tones, Jean-Bernard Fragonard in this wing. Another one, Marie Antoinette and her children. Sculptures during the time of rocopo art was another area where rocopo was widely adopted and is widely considered as one of the best representatives of French rocopo. We have Maurice Falconet. In general, this style was best expressed through delicate porcelain sculpture rather than imposing marble statues. The themes of love were reflected in the sculpture as were elements of nature, curving lines and symmetry. Those elements depict the theme of love. In this connection, the French sculptors Jean-Louis Lemoyne and Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Lorraine and Louis Lemoyne was on in. Michael Pogdon and Miguel may be mentioned with this rocopo art. The sculpture here on your left by Edmue Bouchardon is presented Kippet engaged in carving his dart of love from Club of Hercules. This served as an excellent symbol of the rocopo style. Then we got this demigod transformed into the soft child, the bone-shattering club, becomes the heart-casting arrows just as a marble is a pre-replaced by a sculpture. It's a very good art sculpture. These are just some examples. In music, during the rocopo period, existed in music history, although it is not as well known as the earlier baroque. The rocopo musical style itself developed out of baroque music, both in France, where the new style was referred to as style galante or elegant style. In Germany, where it was referred to as ethno-summer style or sensitive style. It can be characterized as light, intimate music with extremely elaborate and refined forms of ornamentation. Musicians include Jean-Philippe Vermeer and Louis-Claude Pepin and François Coperin in France. In Germany, the style's main proponents were Bach and Johann Christian Bach, two sons of a renowned J.S. Bach. In music, galante refers to the style which was fashionably from 1720s to the 1770s. This movement features a return to simplicity after the complexity of the late Baroque era. This meant simpler, more song-like melodies, decreased use of polyphony, short periodic phases, a reduced harmonic vocabulary, emphasizing tonic and dominant, and a clear distinction between solace and accompaniment. The word galante derived from the French in the early 18th century. The galante code describes a person with fashion, elegance, and culture and rituals. So this is here a picture from the music. Galante. The sculpture depicts an action. There is a movement in the sculpture. As you can see here. So Rococo period existed in music history, although it is not as well known as the earlier Baroque period. And also French found landscaping and gardening as their new style statement to show royalty, grandeur, and how customers developed their garden style known as the French gardens. And then it got spread throughout Europe known as European gardens. So example designed by Andre Lolo. So what we see with these elegant mazes are from Rococo art. They just adopted it to Rococo art. Let's see how this works. The area designer paint features. This is more, this is beautiful. You know, with a fountain in it. On the end, on the center, in the mazes, and the flowers, in trees. So in the winter, the virtuosic courageous houses were more than a thousand boxes. It's under the flower pad known as Garcia de Medina. It's central gallery in 185 meters in length, and its frontage is erected toward the south. Our clear grass is bordered on its south side of the blustered balustrade. So the central gallery is framed by two side galleries. It is lit for a large park windows, which enclose the lower pad. In the center, it's a large circular pool surrounded by a six-pillar craft. Oh, amazing. It's a really showcase how people live on, in this age of Rococo art. Even the grotto was the crowd of the sea. A freestanding structure located just north of the chateau. So the interior, which was decorated with shellwork to represent a sea cave, contained the stage groups of depicting the sun god, his attendants, and his court. Technically, the grotto, the grotto, these caves, these cities, played a critical role in the hydraulic system that supplied water to the gardens. The roof of the grotto supported a servio, servoir, servio, that stored water pumps for the Claggey pond, and which fed the fountains lower in the garden via grass. Wow, amazing. Red Canal, also with a length of 1,500 meters, a width of 62 meters, was built between 1668 and 1670. So Red Canal served as a venue for building parks. This is how they built the things they have. That's why I wanted to add more friends, parents, in some part of your room. Because, oh, looking into this one, you can see this one physically, no? This is how they built it. These are more on the examples of this garden that was built during that time, of the period. They made some expansion in it. The architect was so great, no? History was so rich during this time. Our history is really rich with the culture that we have in different countries. And that ends our discussion for who you are. I hope you learned something. Thank you.