Rocco Combines Baracco And Rocaille To Describe The Refined And Fanciful Style?

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Alizay Imran
Art History
Homework Questions/Answer
Due: March 27, 2014

1. Rocco combines baracco and rocaille to describe the refined and fanciful style. Rocco’s style can’t be fully appreciated through single objects, but is evident everywhere in the salon, with their profused decorated wall sand ceiling busting with exquite three dimensional embellishments in gold, silver and brilliant white paint; their intimate, sensual painting hung among rich ornaments crystal chandeliers, mirror walls and dedicated furniture. However the typical salon design would be having architectural elemants rendered in sculpted stucco, inclusing arabeaques, S-shapes, C-shapes, reverse C-shape, volute and naturalistic plan forms, would have boiseries and inlaid wood designs on furniture and floors. The painting were typically on classical love stories filled playful putti, lush foliage and fluffy cloud. Has atmosphere of sensuality and luxury.
2. The eighteen-century was the emphasis on though enlightened by reason was applied to political and moral philosophy as well as science. Enlightenment thinking is marked by conviction that humans are not superstitious beings ruled by god or the aristocracy, and that all men should have equal rights and opportunities for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. For examples, Jean-Anthoine Watteau, the signboard of gersiant, which shows an art galley filled with paintings from Venetians and Netherlandish school that Watteau admired. He painted for Urban aristocrats and in the painting were the aristocrats who created the atmosphere of aristocratic sophistication. However in the pilgrimage to the island of Cythera, he portrayed an imagined vision of idyllic and sensual life of rococo aristocrats but with the ...

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...merica history. This era has nothing to do with romance but with a strong person believing in the rights of others and expressing deep intense and often uplifting expressions through art. The artwork of the romanticism era was dramatic and would carry the viewer away. The artwork depicted what the artist was feeling not what was being asked of the artist to paint. The artwork was based on the pure emotions of the artist. Romanticism wanted to break away from the neoclassical era and the set of stereotyped rules that came along with that era. “Feelings, passion, imagination, creativity, originality and imperfection prevailed over the importance of order, rules, rationality and perfection from Neoclassicism”. During the romanticism era many things were portrayed: the promotion of individual liberty, ending slavery, and supporting democratic and independence movement.

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