domenica
:: Boucher, François...
BOUCHER, François
(b. 1703, Paris, d. 1770, Paris)
Biography
French Rococo painter, engraver, and designer, who best embodies the frivolity and elegant superficiality of French court life at the middle of the 18th century. He was for a short time a pupil of François Lemoyne and in his early years was closely connected with Watteau, many of whose pictures he engraved. In 1727-31 he was in Italy, and on his return was soon busy as a versatile fashionable artist. His career was hugely successful and he received many honours, becoming Director of the Gobelins factory in 1755 and Director of the Academy and King's Painter in 1765. He was also the favourite artist of Louis XV's most famous mistress, Mme de Pompadour, to whom he gave lessons and whose portrait he painted several times (Wallace Collection, London; National Gallery, Edinburgh).
Boucher mastered every branch of decorative and illustrative painting, from colossal schemes of decoration for the royal châteaux of Versailles, Fontainebleau, Marly, and Bellevue, to designs for fans and slippers. In his typical paintings he turned the traditional mythological themes into wittily indecorous scènes galantes, and he painted female flesh with a delightfully healthy sensuality, notably in the celebrated Reclining Girl (Alte Pinakothek, Munich. 1751), which probably represents Louis XV's mistress Louisa O'Murphy. Towards the end of his career, as French taste changed in the direction of Neoclassicism, Boucher was attacked, notably by Diderot, for his stereotyped colouring and artificiality; he relied on his own repertory of motifs instead of painting from the life and objected to nature on the grounds that it was 'too green and badly lit'. Certainly his work often shows the effects of superficiality and overproduction, but at its best it has irresistible charm and great brilliance of execution. qualities he passed on to his most important pupil, Fragonard.
:: François Boucher...
Odalisca, de François Boucher
François Boucher nasceu em Paris, em 1703, e morreu ali mesmo em 1770. O pintor foi um dos principais artistas decorativos da sua época. Embora tenha vivido num século dominado pelo Barroco, identificava-se mais com o Rococó. As suas pinturas eram cheias de encanto e sedução, repletas de ninfas nuas em cenas mitológicas e alegóricas.
O quadro "Odalisca" (1745) está exposto no Museu do Louvre, em Paris. A jovem nua deitada numa cama em meio a vários lençóis faz pose provocante e interage com o espectador. Na pintura de Odalisca, Boucher quis mostrar os excessos frívolos de meados do século XVIII.
Iscriviti a:
Post (Atom)
Post
.jpg)
