Friday, October 7, 2011

Jean-Antoine Watteau’s Venetian Pleasures

Jean-Antoine Watteau’s Venetian Pleasures. depicts an unrealistic dreamlike landscape where a group of well dressed aristocrats gather to enjoy the leisure of social pleasures. The people gossip, chat and even flirt as one couple takes to the forest for in dance.  Through his fête galantes works Watteau created a new genre of paintings that depict nobles, exquisite landscape, and architecture with no clear narrative.

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