With
the Pompadour with Boucher, Chardin and Fragonard, Watteau
defined a period. Yet when Watteau dies at 37 in 1721, Boucher has
only 18 Fragonard isn’t born, it requires twelve years, which year
the Pompadour was created. And Watteau, which symbolizes the feelings
of youth in age Enlightenment, he resided his short existence underneath the
rigid reign of Louis XIV. He’s adopted those of six years within the
grave. The king, who ended his reign in weariness and Watteau, getting
new time, observed exactly the same occasions. Watteau seemed to be the courtisan of
Louis XIV. In
1702, while
Watteau just try success in Paris, new classes emerged,
from
the gown or high finance. Women of the wealthy bourgeoisie joined by
their marriage within the aristocracy. A genuine osmosis is made
between these social groups and Parisian salons where women like
Marquise du Deffand get the intellectual elite of Europe.
They
appreciate small decorative paints for garnish trim salons and
boudoirs. This is actually the painting connected with "duration of recklessness"
that Jacquemart-André Museum devotes its exhibition around the
theme
from the fete galante, made fashionable by Watteau but already outdated
in the finish from the career of Fragonard. With
the dying of Louis XIV, the cultural light of France will change from
Versailles to Paris. The brand new intelligentsia will require Antoine Watteau
under their protection. It first goes through the workshop Gillot he
grew to become students which help. The teacher introduced him towards the Italian
theater and biting wit. No teaching may well be more hostile to the skill of
Grand Siècle. Watteau found Pants, Harlequin and Isabelle in
his
second master, Claude Audran III. By him, he’ll apply his talent to
new accreditation and privacy in which the paint no more deploys the
adventures of heroes and gods decor, but spawns the amorous subjects.
Conversations
inside a landscape, the women toilet, who try frequently brush Watteau,
and much more, those of his successors, if needed. This tradition
styles enthusiasts to the thirteenth century and also the discovery of
courtly love. Prefiguring the field of Watteau happens in effect in
Honoré d’Urfé, whose enthusiasts dream simply to escape
everyday
existence and join the enchanted island Cythera Watteau baptize.
In
his sketches, more than in the works of art, the
master prefers
a clear, crisp line, griffonis nervous, rapid windings. A baroque inspiration.
And Watteau could it be reflects the resolution of the 18th century
emerging renew its sources. His vision has worked out such influence
over his successors that from 1720, Quillard and Lancret will capture
his subjects. We discover the theme if Italian comedia within the
Pleasures from the ball, and also in The Pilgrimage to Cythera, work that
permitted Watteau joining the Academy in 1717 inside a style produced
specifically for him, those of the fête galante. The field of
Watteau was created. François
Boucher, who respected Watteau, engraved with fervor a lot of his
sketches. However the comparison stops there. Within the situation of Boucher, more
than gallant festivals, it’s pastoral, a genre that they may be the
creator. The protagonists of those scenes are often introduced towards the
loving couple in which the lady is not the elegant Parisienne
Watteau however a shepherdess costume, where costumes aren’t wealthy fabrics
but gallant party sturdy clothing Boucher
was the favourite painter from the Marquise de Pompadour. She’d been
introduced to Paris within the movement of recent ideas in art as with philosophy.
It’ll bring air in the capital towards the king and also the court of
Versailles. She really the thought of a "century of Louis XV" and switch
towards the glory from the reign activity from the finest artists of times.
More to the point, it’ll play a vital role within the evolution of fashion
which will mark the center of a lifetime. The friendly and whimsical
rock taste, first mark the triumph of imagination over reason. However it
is incorporated in the name of reason, in 1750, to attract a violent reaction that
impose around the arts "go back to ancient times." Fragonard pays the cost. He
was been trained in the workshop of Boucher, who switched an important
intermediary between him and Watteau. From 1767 he abandoned history
painting to devote themself to personal commissions frequently coping with
love issues, what are interpretation from the theme of Fragonard
fête galante. His exceptional feeling of fantasy and illusion
ensures customer from the Court and Madame Du Craig, who been successful Madame
de Pompadour as patron of arts him. In 1770, she Fragonard four control
panels to brighten the pavilion of Louveciennes themed Progress of
love. They mark the top painter’s career, but a skill reveal that
seems already passed the name to ancient times. Yet couple of artists have
freely searched for to color the image of the personal dream. The
contribution from the theme from the fete galante helped to link art towards the
concept of an escape by itself. While for hundreds of years, the painting was
bent result in images the myths and dogmas from the community, it
grew to become a key to the soul. To get this done, it required before the eighteenth
century, and much more, his encounter using the painting by Watteau.
Musée
Jacquemart-André, 158, boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris,
until 21 This summer 2014.
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