Comparing The Swinging Women Of Watteau And Fragonard

Rococo style trends prevailing in European art during the first three quarters of the 18th century. Rococo style is not so much independent artistic phenomenon as a phase, a certain stage of pan-European Baroque style. According to reading of Donald Posner ‘The Swinging Women of Watteau and Fragonard” discusses the motives and the symbolism of the genre aimed at love theme. Watteau and Fragonard share a desire for completeness of forms, but if drawn to Baroque monumental solemnity, they prefer in their art elegance and lightness. Darker colors and lush, heavy gilt baroque decor alternate light colors - pink, blue, green, white with lots of details. For painting, sculpture characterized by erotic, erotic mythological subjects. The first significant master painting Rococo became Watteau, and he received further development in the works of Fragonard, also Lancret, Bonnart. Painting French painter Antoine Watteau ‘The Pleasures of Summer’ there are no pure tone. As in the color are all shades of tones in the image and Watteau are all subtle shades of feeling of love. He wrote them gentle, translucent colors, preferring pink, blue, purple and golden hues. Meanwhile, the beauty of paintings of Watteau that he built his paintings at the subtlest shades. His figure stands
clear, big silhouettes. Lacy tree in depth picture brings clarity and scale in its construction. Fragonard the artist famous for creating paintings with love, elegantly frivolous scenes, brilliantly expressed their refinement of the Rococo style..
For example Fragonard`s painting ‘The Swing’ - here are all the signs of a gallant genre - lady and gentlemen in the park, piquant story, Cupid. The plot of this charming picture, so characteristic of the artist playfully erotic. Young beauty, flying on a swing, in ecstasy selflessly throws her shoe. From below, from behind the bushes, the girl admires her lover. The movement of the swing emphasized light shadows that simultaneously attract the viewer's attention to the elegant hand gestures girl and her
gaze. To summarize, we can say that Rococo Art - a world of fiction and intimate experiences, elegance, sophisticated refinement, there is no place for heroism and pathos - they are replaced by a game of love, imagination.The topic of love, eroticism and lyricism, delicate pastel colors, lush details like flying skirts - all characteristic of rococo style - art, designed primarily to please the eye. All this is inherent connotations of Women on Swings. Rococo can be called ladies style, perhaps because of the mood of tenderness and sophistication shown in the samples Rococo art, perhaps due to the fact that the lovely ladies were the main subject of the image in the painting Rococo.