Analysis Of Antoine Watteau's Embarkation For Cythera

With the death of the Baroque era of art, came the birth of a new style, Rococo. It would emerge in the early eighteenth century and would carry over to the nineteenth century (however the Neoclassical period would take some of the lime-light away towards the end). Rococo was staged, planned out art, like the preceding style of Baroque. This however, was dripping in: sweet, happy, light, soft, flashy decorations, and set in lush, luxuries, scenic destinations. Although it was stiff and strained the art was a refresher from the even more uncomfortable art that came before it.

Like all art, the Rococo style was a representation of what was going on in the world. Artist took the events surrounding them and put them to canvas. During the seventeen-hundreds the art style was almost forced onto the artist.

In his painting he has a lavish pink and blue sky that seems to be almost made entirely of clouds. The plants, trees, and grass all look soft and kind. The people are posed in unnatural Baroque ways, but are dressed in Cinderella-like costumes. The people, statues, and angels are all round-faced and happy. The colors of everything all are soft and appealing to the eyes; nothing is too bright or harsh. This painting is a fine example of the art that was crafted during the Rococo Period.

During the years of Rococo art there were tons of other artists, whose works are still very famous to this day. Some of them including: Jean Honoré Fragonard and his piece, “The Swing,” Antoine Watteau and his work, “Les Champs Elysées,” and Francois Lemoyne and his piece, “Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy.” All these paintings, done by very different men living in different parts of the eighteenth-century all share the common sickly sweet, airy, lightness of Rococo art; from the people, to the clothes, and colors all of the art is very