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Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Baroque And Rococo Look France, c.1880, gouache on paper, HFYG D421 02

Title: Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Baroque And Rococo Look France, c.1880, gouache on paper, HFYG D421_02
Design Library Classification: Art Movements and Period Styles
Design Library Sub-classification: Baroque And Rococo Look
Media Type Textile Design
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Creator(s): Unknown
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Contributor: Design Library
Country France
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Publication Date: c.1880
Image Description: France, c.1880, gouache on paper

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"THE TERM "BAROQUE" describes a long period in European art, from the late sixteenth century until the mid-eighteenth century. The Rococo style, which grew out of the Baroque, developed in France during the first half of the eighteenth century, and reflects the cult of sensuousness prevalent in the reign of Louis XV. The original English meaning of the word "baroque" was "odd" or "grotesque"; it seems to have originated as a Portuguese jeweler's term for a misshapen pearl. To the authors of The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts, the Baroque is characterized by "floridity, grandiloquence, and exuberance." The Oxford English Dictionary, meanwhile, defines "Rococo" as "conventional shell- and scrollwork and meaningless decoration; excessively or tastelessly florid or ornate." (Number 1 shows the typical rocaille, or shell shape, that gave the Rococo its name.) What seems to have earned these styles their derogatory handles is their horror of empty space, which they tended to fill with a multitude of curlicues and arabesques. Yet many textiles in these modes are rich and elegant, finding harmony in their abundance - like the Baroque-look number 2. And their echoes of the ancien regime make them attractive to the modern aristo manque."

Source: Design Library