Wednesday Mornings with Bea: Les Fetes Galantes or The Bantering Art of Seduction in 18th Century French Rococo
Sensuous dreams, voluptuous colors, cheeky amorous games, idealized idyllic pastoral settings, an aristocratic escapism before the tsunami of the Revolution, Les Fêtes Galantes, better translated as Courtship Parties, are the invention of Antoine Watteau,the Mozart of art, the master of subtlety, delight and pleasure, yet always oozing a dimension of sadness and subliminal anxiety.
These amorous parties ooze a lightness of being infused by the French Rococo sensibility. After Watteau, this flirtatious genre continued in the works of Pater, Lancret, Boucher and Fragonard, whose paintings will ravish your senses.
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