The
rose has been revered for millions of years as a symbol of love and beauty and
has been an inspiration to poets and painters.
Continuing the series from my post on Feb. 27, 2012 regarding Roses in
Art ……
In
France before and after the French revolution, artists Francois Boucher and
Jean-Honore Fragonard who painted the courtly activities of the French monarchy
adopted the Rococo style – finely detailed, bright and colorful brushstrokes as
shown in Fragonard’s painting of The Lover Crowned in a rose garden
setting bursting with movement and color.
Fragonard studied under Boucher who made a big impression on him and
adapted Boucher’s lively style.
Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806)
When the French
monarchy ended with the French Revolution, Fragonard lost his favorite subject
of courtly love so he eventually moved to the French countryside. Fragonard noted for his rococo style with
curvaceous shapes and animated figures, painted The Lover Crowned around
1771-1772 with an enchanting garden setting full of an exuberant display of
roses. It was orignally commissioned by
Countess du Barry, mistress of Louis XV for the salon en cul-de-four in her
house in Louveciennes but was later rejected.
Baroque
style of painting though started in Rome soon became an international
style. In Holland there were various
painters with varied styles. One of them
is Jan Davidsz de Heem who painted Flower
Still Life c. 1665. This still life
of flowers including roses has a baroque style – a swirling brushstrokes of the
flowers in its vitality that practically jumps at you when you look at the
picture.
Francisco De Goya Y Lucientes (1746 – 1828)
Francisco de Goya Y
Lucientes is one of the greatest Spanish painters. He was a Painter to the King of Spain in
1786. The Flower Women was painted after
June 29, 1786 for the Escorial. The
scene is bright and gay against the background of clouds and the mountainside
with the ladies exchanging roses.
During
the Pre-Raphaelite movement, Sir John Everett Millias who founded the movement
wanted to stay true to nature and painted the landscape with rose as he saw
them in nature.
Sir John Everett
Millais (1829-1896)
Millais founded the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood with Dante Gabriel Rosetti and William Holman Hunt. Ophelia painted in 1852 is the most eerie of
all Pre-Rapaelite landscapes. The
landscape was painted on the River Ewell near Kingston-upon-Thames in Surrey in
the summer of 1851. Elizabeth Siddal
posed as Ophelia of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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