Rococo

      Rococo was a decorative 18th century European style, which was the last expression of the baroque movement. It pushed to the extreme the principles of illusion and theatricality, an effect attained by dense ornament, asymmetry, fluid curves, and the use of white and pastel colors combined with gilding, drawing the eye in all directions. The style of Rococo was mainly architecture but also influenced painting, sculpture, literature, music, and theatre. Some famous Rococo artsists consist of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Henrietta Johnston, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, François Boucher, François Lemoyne, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Thomas Gainsborough, Jean-Baptiste Pater, and many more.






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Johannes Vermeer

      Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. There are 38 pieces of art attributed to him. There are a lot of sharp edges in his paintings and there is a nice contrast of dark and light colors in all of his paintings. All of the artwork I took a close look at had people in it. All of those people are extremely life like with great facial expressions.

Vermeer art

Vermeer art