The word rococo is a combination of French Rocaille (shell craft) and Italian Barocco (baroque). Rocaille is an interior decoration mixed with shells and stones, while Barocco is an earlier grand and gorgeous artistic style. Some people regard Rococo style as the late stage of Baroque style, that is, the disintegration and decadence stage of Baroque.
Rococo's style has been reflected in detail in portraits. The characters in the painting are no longer gods, knights or saints, but courtiers and nobles of the court. The colors are delicate and elegant, and the characters are slender. Some paintings show that the aesthetics at that time began to break away from religion and country, gradually got rid of the dignified, sacred and depressing atmosphere, and began to show the pastoral style of aristocratic men and women.
The overall characteristics of rococo are light, gorgeous, delicate, delicate, complicated, delicate and soft, and it pursues the light and slender beauty of beauty, which is beautiful, delicate, delicate and sweet, and deliberately emphasizes asymmetry in composition. Its craft, structure and lines are both rigid and flexible, and the decorative theme tends to naturalism, with tortuous shell-shaped curves and fine and delicate carvings as the main features.
Rococo painters like to choose bright colors and exquisite curve compositions, and like to decorate their paintings with angels and love myths, making the pictures beautiful and mysterious.
Rococo-style paintings aim at the enjoyable life of men and women in the upper class, depicting naked or semi-naked women and exquisite and gorgeous decorations, with beautiful natural scenery or exquisite human landscape.
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