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A 12 page paper which compares and contrasts two paintings of Jean-Antione Watteau. The paintings are “Departure from Cythera” (1717) which is more commonly known as “Pilgrimage to Cythera,” and “The Sign for Gersaint’s Shop” (1720). Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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art. It was a style that was quite romantic, and incredibly frivolous. Many of the paintings of Watteau truly symbolized much of this movement through presenting images of the incredibly
wealthy spending their time idly, and seeking pleasure. They are paintings that truly illustrate the all but useless and narcissistic nature of the idle wealthy. Two such paintings are "Departure
from Cythera" painted in 1717 (this painting is more commonly referred to as "Pilgrimage to Cythera) and "The Sign for Gersaints Shop" painted in 1720. The following paper compares and
contrasts various elements from both paintings and argues that all of these elements clearly offer the viewer a look at the idle nature of the narcissistic wealth in the 18th
century. Style As mentioned, Watteau was known for the French Rococco style of painting. It was a style of painting that was quite romantic, yet possessed elements that
made it more than romantic. There were subtle hints of impressionism and subtle hints at expressionism as well. Both of the paintings under discussion are clearly from the same style
of painting. In order to more clearly understand this style we present the following analysis by one critic: "Watteau is usually and most easily thought of as the great
painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after what was worst in the pompository of Louis
XIV, and finally yielding to the rigid classicism of the immediately pre-Revolutionary years under the unhappy Louis XVI. Actuall--chronologically that is--Watteau was a modernist out of key with the official
art of his times, which was that of Louis XIVs old age" (Canaday, 1984; 58). What this tells us is that the painting style of Watteau was very unlike
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