{"id":100,"date":"2021-10-19T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/garleensandhu\/?p=100"},"modified":"2021-10-20T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T18:35:17","slug":"neoclassicism-romanticism-rococo-jean-antoine-watteau-1684-1721","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/garleensandhu\/2021\/10\/19\/neoclassicism-romanticism-rococo-jean-antoine-watteau-1684-1721\/","title":{"rendered":"Neoclassicism, Romanticism, & Rococo | Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684 \u2013 1721)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the most brilliant and original artists of the eighteenth century was Jean-Antoine Watteau. Watteau’s influence on the development of Rococo art in France and Europe lasted far beyond his lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Feast (or Festival) of Love<\/em> (1718\u20131719)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At a time of aristocratic excess and hedonism, Jean-Antoine Watteau’s sensuously painted Rococo idylls expressed courtly love and ideals of reverie, desire, and utopia. Watteau’s subjects, which he painted in both decorative and fine arts, drew a wealthy clientele and a newly developing collecting class, making him highly profitable throughout his lifetime. Watteau’s use of decoration, paired with his subtle compositions, colour use, and whimsical subjects, portrays the Rococo era like no other artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rococo art is noted for its frivolity, hedonism, and lightheartedness. Watteau’s compositions, on the other hand, were informed by a detailed study of nature and life, which he first represented in numerous drawings that later influenced his paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pleasures of Love<\/em> (1718\u20131719)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

His paintings went out of prominence during and after the French Revolution. The revolutionaries detested all things associated with the nobility, including Watteau’s paintings. Watteau’s reputation, however, is gradually regaining ground as artists and students gain a deeper understanding of his delicate investigation of the growing modern selfhood and his sophisticated painting techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Love Song, c. 1717, National Gallery, London<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The French Royal Academy introduced a new genre, f\u00eate galantes, to fit Watteau’s paintings of finely dressed aristocrats flirting in the landscape. These paintings of courtship parties dealt with themes of love, secrecy, fun, and wistfulness. His works merged genre painting with mythological topics that were prominent at the time in historical painting. Watteau’s portfolio included both decorative and fine arts, which were perhaps not as well defined as they are now. Watteau painted on panels or directly on the wall, creating motifs and vignettes to decorate his patrons’ dining rooms and studies. He also created enormous oil paintings that were accepted by the French Royal Academy. The subjects of both styles of work frequently overlapped in the settings of musicians, lovers, and magnificent landscapes. Many of Watteau’s most notable works have a stage-like setting, with the panoramic image spreading laterally in relatively shallow space. Such compositional approaches can be traced back to his love of theatre and dance. His favoured subjects included both opera and the more popular Commedia dell’arte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ceres (Summer)<\/em>, c. 1717\u20131718, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Up until the rise of Neoclassicism, Watteau’s artistic impact dominated French art. His fondness for sensual genre topics taken from seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish sources, as well as his tribute to Rubens and the colorism of sixteenth-century Venetian painting recast in delicate pastels to suit the scale and aesthetic of Rococo d\u00e9cor, was widely followed. While Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater was Watteau’s lone student, practically every artist working in eighteenth-century France owes a debt to Watteau’s intriguing f\u00eates galantes and beautiful Trois crayons drawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking a glance at Watteau\u2019s artwork, I can conclude that his work explores the relationship between celebrity culture and artistic expression. He questioned the distinction between everyday objects and art objects. His work shows attributes of Dada, Arabesque, as well as, Art Nouveau. Dada gives intellectual support to Watteau\u2019s work while Arabesque provides subject matter and Art Nouveau gives the way of artistic expression to his work. His artwork exemplifies the close relationship between Rococo and other movements, whilst his latter work exemplifies societal and artistic concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antoine_Watteau<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.brit<\/a>annica.com\/biography\/Antoine-Watteau<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www<\/a>.jean-antoine-watteau.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Images:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Jean-Antoine Watteau – Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=1308819<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jean-Antoine Watteau – yAFuVqqmp5q8Rg at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=21963652<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jean-Antoine Watteau – 3gEH2KivNpOmZA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=21963290<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jean-Antoine Watteau – This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art. Please see the Gallery’s Open Access Policy., CC0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=74846151<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jean-Antoine Watteau – Antoine Watteau, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=1170832<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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