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Watteau Antoine
Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World (Vintage)
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Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he died in 1721, when he was only thirty-six, has influenced innumerable painters and writers in the centuries since—and whose work continues to deepen our understanding of the place that love, friendship, and pleasure have in our daily lives. Perl creates an astonishing experience by gathering his reflections on this “master of silken surfaces and elusive emotions” in the form of an alphabet—a fairy tale for adults—giving us a new way to think about art. This brilliant collage of a book is a hunt for the treasure of Watteau’s life and vision that encompasses the glamour and intrigue of eighteenth-century Paris, the riotous history of Harlequin and Pierrot, and the work of such modern giants as Cézanne, Picasso, and Samuel Beckett. By turns somber and beguiling, analytical and impressionistic, Antoine’s Alphabet reaffirms the contemporary relevance of the greatest of all painters of young love and imperishable dreams. It is a book to savor, to share, to return to again and again. From the Hardcover edition.
Antoine Watteau 1684-1721 (Basic Art)
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Best known for his fetes galantes such as the famous Pelerinage a l'ile de Cythere, Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a major proponent in the revival of the Baroque style and the formation of the Rococo movement. Watteau was inspired by the theater and in particular the commedia dell'arte, hence elaborately costumed actors, dancers, and musicians were recurrent subjects; he was also fond of bucolic scenes and portraiture. Infused with romance, drama, and joie de vivre, Watteau's paintings depict a idyllic world of pleasure and entertainment.Every book in "Taschen's Basic Art Series" features: a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist; approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions; and, a concise biography.
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A Lovely Introduction
The 1700's were a fun and frothy time for French painting, but Boucher, Fragonard and Watteau are a bit out of fashion these days. Too fun, too frothy, too frilly, too flirty.
But man, what we're missing: Antoine Watteau's work is a window into a world of courtship and flirtation, where the skirts billow and the corsets cling, and every day is a good time for a picnic.
And the paint. These guys knew how to handle them some paint! Gorgeous, lush, technically masterful... It takes some serious skill to do justice to fun, frivolity and women without many clothes on!
Buy this book and imagine the world that might have been...
2008-09-21
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Watteau, Music, and Theater (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Accompanying an exhibition in honor of Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this engaging book examines the influence of music and theater on the art of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Fifteen major paintings and a number of drawings by Watteau that illustrate the connections between painting and the performing arts in Paris are explored. In addition, drawings and prints by other 18th-century artists featuring musical or theatrical subjects and objects and musical instruments are included.
Antoine Watteau
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Here is the definitive study of the great painter Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), best known for his exquisite fetes galantes--scenes of the pastoral pleasures of elegant society. Until now, critical interpretations of this remarkable artist have been shaped by essentially Romantic views. Donald Posner provides a reassessment of the life and work of Watteau; his account is enriched with reproductions of all of Watteau's paintings and major studies.
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A sublime rendering of Watteau
Everyone who loves Watteau should have this beautiful book at hand. It has so much to offer in textual analyses, that when you see the actual Watteaus at the Louvre, Posner's delvings into these paintings places you in Watteau's world, a mysterious one, not easily accessed by anyone.
I lament Posner's passing, but I will never lament his great work on Watteau.
I think the treatment of Watteau's "Pelerinage a l'ile de Cythere," 1717 deserves special singularization; to miss this analysis is to be cheated out of a large part of 18th Century French culture.
2008-01-02
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Watteau's Painted Conversations: Art, Literature, and Talk in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
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Antoine Watteau painted his "fetes galantes" during a period in which the art of polite conversation flourished in France. In this study, Mary Vidal shows that conversation was central to Watteau's images of sociability, providing the framework for figural and formal relationships even in his military, mythological, theatrical and religious works. Vidal argues that Watteau's painted conversations were not mere literal descriptions of social behaviour but repesented conversation as part of an aesthetic, linguistic and ethical system, as an art of living. Vidal shows that Watteau's focus on cnverstion was related to developments in the 17th- and 18th-century France: the rise and elaboration of an art of conversation, the connection between polite discourse and the redefinition of the nobility, the flourishng of women's salons in Paris and the development of the literary genre of the written conversation. Watteau recognised speech as the central sign system in French society and he identified the characteristics of fine conversation in his new manner of painting. Through this analogy, he presented the artistic process itself as the main concern of the elite artist, in contrast to the scholarly, text-dependent image of the Academy. In choosing conversation as his subject, Watteau associated his art with polite society. In his conversational artmaking, Watteau set up dialogic relationships between spoken words and images, art and society, viewer and painting. Often regarded as merely erotic and decorative, this books shows his painted conversations to be also works of substance, ideas and morals.
Watteau Antoine News
The First Art Newspaper on the Net - Art Daily
Art Daily, Maine - May 15, 2009
The First Art Newspaper on the NetThe example included in the June sale is no exception, with the interior image taken from a detail of a print by B.Audrian illustrated left, after Watteau. The original painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), L'Aventurier, circa 1717,
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Grace and fervor - The Standard
The Standard, Hong Kong - May 06, 2009
The StandardGrace and fervorThe inspiration for them are paintings of French painter Antoine Watteau, which capture the joie de vivre of 18th-century court society. Meticulous handcrafting can be seen in the ornamentation of the dresses but the true technical achievement is in
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L'abbé Denis Lecompte a évoqué son départ au début de la messe d ... - La Voix du Nord
La Voix du Nord, France - May 19, 2009
L'abbé Denis Lecompte a évoqué son départ au début de la messe d Et ils étaient nombreux à rendre un hommage à l'abbé qui rejoindra la cité de Jean-Antoine Watteau en septembre prochain. Pour cette cérémonie où étaient fêtées Notre-Dame de Grâce et Notre-Dame de Fatima, des prêtres du secteur, ainsi que de très
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Obrazy, które wstrząsnęły światem - Rzeczpospolita
Rzeczpospolita, Poland - May 07, 2009
Obrazy, które wstrząsnęły światem16.30) poznamy obraz „Pielgrzymka na Cyterę” (1717) Antoine'a Watteau. Wraz z „Mona Lizą” Leonarda da Vinci, „Koncertem na wolnym powietrzu” Tycjana czy „Weselem w Kanie Galilejskiej” Paolo Veronese obraz Watteau jest jednym z najsławniejszych płócien
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Mode und Körperlichkeit - Esslinger Zeitung
Esslinger Zeitung, Germany - May 23, 2009
Mode und KörperlichkeitDie französischen Maler Antoine Watteau (1684 bis 1721), François Boucher (1703 bis 1770) und Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 bis 1806) haben derartige „fêtes galantes“ in Gemälden festgehalten und sparen dabei erotische Konnotationen nicht aus.
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Antoine Watteau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jean-Antoine Watteau (October 10, 1684 – July 18, 1721) was a French painter ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Antoine Watteau ...
WebMuseum: Watteau, Jean-Antoine
... interest in theater and ballet, Antoine Watteau is probably best known for his ... Jean-Antoine Watteau was born on Oct. 10, 1684, in Valenciennes, France. ...
Antoine Watteau: Biography from Answers.com
Jean- Antoine Watteau (born Oct. 10, 1684, Valenciennes, France — died July 18, 1721, Nogent-sur ... The French painter Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was the ...
Jean-Antoine Watteau - Artchive
Includes a detailed biography and numerous examples of the painter's work.
Watteau, Antoine
Jean-Antoine Watteau (October 10, 1684 – July 18, 1721) was a French painter ... Not much is known about the birth and childhood of Jean-Antoine Watteau. ...
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