A brief description about Rococo Art and Architecture, and the characteristics.

1. Nageen Raja
Asma Javed

2. Rococo Art
Name: LATE BAROQUE
Origin: Paris, France
Developed in: 18th century
Date: 1700-1750
Derived from: French word “ROCAILLE” meaning
STONE or RUBBLE.

3. Rococo is an artistic movement and style which has
affected many aspects of art:
 Sculpture
 Painting
 Architecture
 Interior
 Furniture
 Fashion
 Ceramics
 Jewellery
 Literature
 Music
 Theater

4. Characteristics:
 jocular, florid and graceful approach to Baroque
 Vertical lines were avoided
 Angles were softened
 style was ornate, used light colors, asymmetrical
designs, curves and gold.
 playful and witty themes.
 produced flowing, giddy, visually spectacular carving
 elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures,
ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing
architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings.

5. Features
 Natural motifs
 Elaborated carved forms
 Asymmetry
 S and c scrolls
 Rocaille
 Acanthus leaf
 Cabochon
 Scallop shell
 Marquetry

6. Furniture
 Lighthearted, visually and physically
 Ornate, graceful
 role in comfort and versatility
 Idea has evolved to a symbol of status
 Easily moved around
 Matching back
 Preferred choice due to its strength

8. Voyeuse chair
Late 18th century
Short legged
Cushion at top

9. Bergere en Gondole
Closed arm chair

10. Italian Console table 1730 Juste Aurele

11. Sculpture
 Rococo was widely adapted
 Expressed through delicate porcelain sculpture
 Themes of love and gaiety
 Elements of nature, curving lines and asymmetry.

12. Edme Bouchardon
1750

13. Pair of lovers
Franz Anton
1760
Etienne Maurice Falconet
amour menaçant, louvre
1750

14. Painting
 Decorative art style was clearly shown
 Delicate colors and curving forms
 Decorating canvas with cherubs and myths of love
 Portraits were also popular
 Some showed a sort of naughtiness or impurity in the
behavior of their subjects
 Pastoral landscapes

15. Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721)
The embarktion for Cythera
François Boucher (1703–1770)
Birth of Venus

16. William Hogarth (1697–1764)
Painter and his Pug
Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807)
Woman dressed as vestal virgin

17. Fashion
 Men with high heels
 Women with hair mounded on top
 Curls and twirls with stings of pearl
 Lightweight silk layered TAFETTA and SATIN
 Light pastel colors
 Large floral motifs
 Stripes sprinkled with sprigs

20. Jewellery
 Flowers, foliage, ribbons, scrollwork, feathers
 Engraved or embossed on metal.
 Enamel was abandoned as a form of decorative
technique
 Functional jewellery and chatelaines or snuff boxes
Chatelaines

21. Revival necklace
Scroll work

22. Architecture
 Lighter, more graceful
 Elaborate version of baroque architecture
 Asymmetry of forms
 Richly decorated
 Numerous curves and decorations
 Pale color
 Jocular and light hearted themes

23. Catherine palace, Russia
the Augustus burg
and Falkenlust
Palaces, Brühl,

24. the Queluz National Palace in
Portugal
the Chinese House (Potsdam)

25. Interior
 Fully in control, sportive, fantastic
 Sculptural forms expressed in abstract expressions
 Flaming, leafy or shell like textures in asymmetrical
sweeps, flourishes and broken curves.
 suppress architectonic divisions of architrave frieze
and cornice for picturesque.
 Rococo palette softer and paler then those of baroque
 pastel pink, lilac, blue and green
 decorative elements were rocaille, S and C shaped
scrolls, acanthus leaves, birds and flower and chubby
babies.

26. MUSIC:
 not as well-known as the earlier Baroque and later
Classical forms.
 characterized as light, intimate music with extremely
elaborate and refined forms of ornamentation.