Characteristics of Rococo include the use of elaborate curves and scrolls, ornaments shaped like shells and plants, and entire rooms being oval in shape. Patterns were intricate and details delicate. Compare the intricacies of the c. 1740 oval chamber shown above at France's Hôtel de Soubise in Paris with the autocratic gold in the chamber of France's King Louis XIV at the Palace of Versailles, c. 1701. In Rococo, shapes were complex and not symmetrical. Colors were often light and pastel, but not without a bold splash of brightness and light. The application of gold was purposeful.
"Where the baroque was ponderous,
massive, and overwhelming," writes fine arts professor William Fleming, "the Rococo is delicate, light, and charming." Not everyone was charmed
The Rococo library (Barocksaal der Stiftsbibliothek) of St Gallen
The two pictures above are of The Hôtel de by Rococo, but these architects and Soubise in Paris, France artists did take risks that others previously had not.
Rococo Defined Painters of the Rococo era were free
• A style of architecture and not only to create great murals for decoration, primarily French in grand palaces but also smaller, more origin, which represents the delicate works that could be displayed final phase of the Baroque in French salons. Paintings are around the middle of the 18th characterized by the use of soft colors cent. characterized by profuse, and fuzzy outlines, curved lines, often semiabstract detailed ornamentation, and a lack of ornamentation and lightness of symmetry. The subject matter of color and weight.—Dictionary of paintings from this period grew Architecture and Construction bolder—some of it may even be considered pornographic by today's By Farah Sahira 110052935 standards.