The Progress Of Love: The Art Movement Of Art

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The Art movement was born in the 1700s as a response and resistance to the rules of academic painting school in which they were strict and theroley viewed by people that viewed art in a strict manner. The Rococo art movement was a progress of art that first started in central France around the 17th century and later on spread throughout Europe, demanded by Louis XIV to have more relaxed art as well as a response to the Baroque style. This art movement gave people a feeling of warmth as they viewed the depictions of a regular middle to upper class daily life and home. The art during the Rococo period meant to spread an impression of how people lived in a way that is shown through pastel light hearted colors that gave away a feminine and whimsical …show more content…

Projecting a sumptuous daily life of the lovers as they are depicted to be in a concept of indulgence. In many rococo paintings the lovers are often placed in a way where the viewer's eye catches in the center and that is due to the fact that space is given between them creating a pyramidal shape that draws attention, like the lady in the Swing she is centered in the middle as two men are placed on both sides creating a pyramidal structure. The idea of drawing viewers to the center was a popular trend that many painters used during the rococo period. In the The Progress of Love: The Meeting the garden is a place for the lovers to meet and engage in each other, this painting introduces a rococo style through the light colors, smooth skin, loving mood whimsical landscape and a charming theme. The focus on detail is also important in the Rococo movement as it is presented in both as the Swing presents a stone lap dog, stone statue of cupid and dolphin which signifies wealth and love. In the The Progress of Love: The Meeting the detail of statue of Venus holding her fallen son show a representation of love. The young lady seems to be a bit tensed as if she is almost about to get caught in the act of assignation, thus this adds light humor as if the painting is depicting a Romeo and Juliet

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