Research Statement and Annotated Bibliography

French Rococo

Why do people criticize French Rococo even though it brings a touch of life and atmosphere to its surroundings?

A book with single author: French Style and Decoration.

Regence and Louis Xv

The Triumph of Rococo

Pages 44-80

This books talks and relates to fluidity of the art giving a sense of movement and life, heavily focusing on the images and then at the end of each chapter it gives a summary of the images in that section and the artist who created them. Therefore allowing the reader to gain an insight on what French Rococo really is.

Book with single author: Cliff.S. (2008).French Style and Decoration. USA: Thames & Hudson

A scholarly journal article: The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art

(Rococo Clock)

Rococo Clock

Pages 211-214

This journal talks the elegance of the design of rococo and explains how it affected the era, as it was all about the detail and personality that came with it. Furthermore it discusses that it fully emerged when France can into a point of wealth where the people were able to truly focus on extravagance of that which is rococo.

Scholarly Journal article: Henry. H,(sep,1967),The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art(Rococo Clock), Vol.54,No.7,pp.211-214

An edited book: making up the Rococo: Francois Boucher and his Critics.

This edited book talks about the relationship between the French rococo and religious ideals and icons, and the exploration of religious paintings as it pulls from neo classism and has contorted creating a more nature based design, creating life within the very materials that it is placed upon. Even though it was found out the true ancients use to paint their sculpture with bright colours and which further related to the twisted French Rococo. Even still it was critiqued harshly though there still those who appreciate its finer touch.

Edited Book: Hyde,M(Ed).2006. Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and His Critics (Texts and Documents Series). Michigan: Getty Research Institute

A website: Discover France –Art periods: Rococo style

This website explains the various parts of French rococo in detail, and briefly going over the end of the age of Baroque. But furthermore better acquaints the reader on what French rococo is and the age that it came from. It explains such things as how it then spread further to other countries within Europe and that it became a more wanted type of design at the time. Though still talks about the difference in styles between the two, and giving an even and fair balanced critique.

Website: Discover France –Art periods: Rococo style. Retrieved

From http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Art/rococo.shtml

An image: Japy Freres large Antique French Rococo Clock set.

This piece of art shows a movement and change of true nature into a form of self made architecture in a form of clock and candle holders. Changing from nature into a different form that is both placing into the physical, mental and spiritual. There is great deal of detailing on this is show through the confines of the material it made from, allowing you to be able to feel the artist’s emotion and the flow that it has been given. While it is all down to personal choice and people shouldn’t try to just stay with the times.

Japy.F,French – circa (1890), large Antique Rococo Clock set.