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“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." - Andre Gide

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse." -Winston Churchill

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands." - Michelangelo

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Art Term of the Week

Rococo: 
An artistic style after Baroque in the 1700s. Characteristically very ornate, light, airy, delicate and with a lot of movement.  Rococo comes from rocaille meaning ‘rock work’. 
 
Artists: Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Fragonard, François Boucher, and Jean-Antoine Watteau


 
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