This word is a combination of French Rocaille (shell craft) and Italian Barocco (baroque). Rocaille is an interior decoration mixed with shells and stones, while Barocco is an earlier grand and gorgeous artistic style. Some people regard Rococo style as the late stage of Baroque style, that is, the disintegration and decadence stage of Baroque.
Rococo style first appeared in decorative arts and interior design. After Louis XV ascended the throne, it brought some changes to court art. In the late reign of former King Louis XIV, Baroque design style was gradually replaced by more curves and lighter elements of natural images. Rococo art began around Louis XIV's death 17 15.
Features:
The overall characteristics of Rococo are lightness, luxury, exquisiteness, delicacy, triviality, delicacy and softness. It pursues the beauty of elegance, exquisiteness and charm, exquisiteness and elegance, sweetness and tenderness, and deliberately emphasizes asymmetry in composition.
Its craft, structure and lines are characterized by dexterity and softness, and its decorative themes tend to be naturalistic, mainly complicated shell-shaped curves and fine and exquisite carvings. The tone of modeling is convex curve, often in the form of S-shaped corner. Rococo-style colors are very delicate and lively, such as light green, pink and scarlet. And most of the legs are gold.