Rococo is an 18th-century artistic movement and style, which affected several aspects of
the arts including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration,
literature, music and theatre, developed in the early part of the 18th century.
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Unlike the more politically focused Baroque, the Rococo had more playful and often witty
artistic themes. In the book The Rococo, it is written that there was no other culture
which “has produced a wittier, more elegant, and teasing dialogue full of elusive and
camouflaging language and gestures, refined feelings and subtle criticism”
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The word Rococo is seen as a combination of the French rocaille, meaning stone, and
coquilles, meaning shell, due to reliance on these objects as motifs of decoration. Rococo
is now widely recognized as a major period in the development of European art.
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Painters used delicate colors and curving forms, decorating their canvases with cherubs
and myths of love. They show a sort of naughtiness or impurity in the behavior of their
subjects, showing the historical trend of departing away from the Baroque’s church
orientation.
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