Introduction


Hidden Objects and Rococo

Have you played the game where you try to find all of the hidden objects in a picture? The room may be full of paintings, pictures, objects, furniture, tapestries, and/or designs on the walls. It is done this way to make it hard for you to find what you are looking for and gets harder as you advance in levels.

Looking at one of those pictures on the game is a lot like looking at Rococo art and architecture. Rococo art, especially the interiors of Rococo churches, palaces, and other places, are full of things with curved lines, gold, objects, and artwork. It almost makes you feel like you are playing a "where is the hidden object" game when you are looking it!


Interior of Pilgrim Church (Wieskirche) in Steingaden, Germany


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Compare and Contrast

See if you can figure out the differences in the Baroque painting on top and the Rococo painting below it!

Baroque:


Supper at Emmaus by Caravaggio, 1600-01


Rococo:


The See Saw by Fragonard, 1770-75


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Lesson Objectives

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...

  • Examine and describe art of the Rococo period, including works by Jean-Antoine Watteau, Francois Boucher, William Hogarth, and Thomas Gainsborough
  • Identify techniques and styles used during the French and English Rococo Period, including fête galante and pastel

Enduring Understandings

  • Through their use of elements and structures of their art form, artists and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
  • Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
  • Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
  • People use a variety of sources as inspiration and transform concepts and ideas into artistic expression.

The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Elements of Arts Literacy standards: 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8.

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