Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Chinoiserie entered European art and decoration in the mid-to-late 17th century; the work of Athanasius Kircher influenced the study of Orientalism.The popularity of chinoiserie peaked around the middle of the 18th century when it was associated with the Rococo style and with works by François Boucher, Thomas Chippendale, and Jean-Baptist Pillement.
He was active from 1699 to 1730, and is mainly known for his Rococo Chinoiserie or Orientalist paintings, [1] and decorative objects and scenes. [2] He painted scenery for the Paris Opera (then the Académie Royale de Musique) around the turn of the eighteenth century. [3] In 1710, he lived with his wife Marie Prévost on Rue Fromenteau. [4]
In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of the Middle East , [ 1 ] was one of the many specialties of 19th-century academic art , and Western literature ...
The Willow pattern is a distinctive and elaborate chinoiserie pattern used on ceramic tableware. It became popular at the end of the 18th century in England when, in its standard form, it was developed by English ceramic artists combining and adapting motifs inspired by fashionable hand-painted blue-and-white wares imported from Qing dynasty China.
It was part of a series of etchings he made of Boucher's chinoiserie subjects between 1741 and 1763 – he had moved from London to Paris and probably made 'Le Berger Content' or 'The Happy Shepherd' there in 1741 as the first work in the series. He then remained in Paris until his death and produced book illustrations as well as other works ...
Jean-Baptiste Pillement - Landscape with cattle Jean-Baptiste Pillement (Lyon, 24 May 1728 – Lyon, 26 April 1808) was a French painter and designer, known for his exquisite and delicate landscapes, but whose importance lies primarily in the engravings done after his drawings, and their influence in spreading the Rococo style and particularly the taste for chinoiserie throughout Europe.
Jarry, Madeleine (1981), Chinoiseries: le rayonnement du goût chinois sur les arts décoratifs des xviie et xviiie siècles, Fribourg: Office du Livre; Kant, Marion, ed. (2007), The Cambridge Companion to Ballet, Cambridge Companions to Music, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-53986-9
The four arts (simplified Chinese: 四艺; traditional Chinese: 四藝; pinyin: Sìyì), or the four arts of the Chinese scholar, were the four main academic and artistic talents required of the aristocratic ancient Chinese scholar-gentleman.