The Village Bride Analysis

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Valeriia Baumgard
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Village Bride, 1761, oil on canvas a. Rococo was both the logical result of its development and artistic antipode to Baroque. Rococo combines the desire for completeness of forms, but if the baroque tends to be monumental solemnity, Rococo prefers the elegance and ease, alternate light colors - pink, blue, green, white with lots of details.
b. Convincing credibility depicted the situation and its naturalistic treatment makes the viewer to empathize with the heroes as if they were their relatives or friends. However, the enormous success of the "The Village Bride " was also due to its didactics in the spirit of the new sentimental novel and the new ideology (the secular concept of marriage is considered mainly as a civil act, not a religious sacrament sacred, "a contract with God").
c. Under the influence of the cult of sensitivity inherited by sentimentalism, Greuze gives his characters touching motives, manifested with exaggerated pathos. Conceived by the context of the Enlightenment …show more content…

"Morning in a Pine Forest" pacifies its steadiness composition. Three bears look very harmonious with their mother and two halves of a fallen pine tree and it looks like a divine proportion. This picture is like a random frame on an old camera that the tourist could make, have been looking for a true virgin nature.
When you look at the color of the picture, the artist tries to capture all the richness of colors dawn pores. We see the air, he was not familiar blue hue, but rather a blue-green, slightly cloudy and foggy. The predominant colors that surrounded clumsy inhabitants of the forest are green, blue and sunny yellow, reflecting the mood of awakening nature. Bright flickering golden rays in the background like a hint at the sun, which is about to bring to light the earth. These are the highlights and give a picture of solemnity, they talk about the realism of fog over the

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