Watteau
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A large painting to scale of a tall figure dressed immaculately in white, standing in a painting too low for him, evoking an enormous power of observation and feeling. It is a work of a dreamer who feels out of place in the real world, resulting in an honest account of what he sees.
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I am interested in the impact of art on fashion and fashion on art, especially this era with its preoccupation of collecting, identifying and cataloguing of new plants and flowers. It resulted in fashion moving away from heavy fabrics of the Baroque to the light and fluid fabrics, and characteristics of asymmetry, naturalism and surface decoration. By painting, collaging, textile elements and other found objects, I have rendered realistic images of 18th Century costumes ambiguous and semi-abstract forms.
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Mixed media on velvet. Watteau was a painter from the Rococco period. It is linked to the Enlightenment as opposed to the rationalist, moralistic rigour of Classicism and drama of the Baroque, ending around 1760-1770. The themes of his art were simply change, transcience and the brevity of each moment, which make his work more important today with this relationship to historical context. Highly influenced by Rubens, it can be argued that his work could well have been more daring than Jeff Koons’ with his eclectic work such as ‘Puppy’ a huger sculptor with metal armature with its own irrigation system to water the surface made of flowers. There is the temporality issue in his work, which relates closely to the issues of superficiality in Postmodernism.
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Review of Boucher, Watteau and the Origin of Rococo Exhibition
by Marilyn BrownThe Art Gallery of NSW put together a collection of drawings and prints which demonstrates the art of the Rococo period,
Boucher promoted the Rococo style and he did so based on the drawings of Watteau
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