Artnet

The Art Angle Re-Air: Why Is Rococo Art Making a Comeback?

This week, we are revisiting one of our favorite podcasts of late, where Artnet Editor Katie White took us through what she dubs the Neo-Rococo movement. It is perfect timing to have a listen, ...
Artnet

In Pictures: How French Rococo Design Shaped Some of Disney’s Most Beloved Films, From ‘Cinderella’ to ‘Sleeping Beauty’

In the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast, a young woman, Belle, dances and sings inside a magical castle where inanimate objects come to life. The cast of characters includes a French-accented ...
The Guardian

Arcade Fire's Rococo lampoons a frivolous age through art

"Let's go downtown and watch the modern kids," suggest Arcade Fire in the most powerful song on their latest album, The Suburbs). In Rococo those kids are talking, "using big words that they don't ...
Los Angeles Times

Gift of Rococo painting to LACMA goes back to the future

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Expectations were that a gift of an early 18th century French painting ...
The New York Times

At the Frick, a Young Painter Spars With an Old Master

The “too muchness” of Rococo painting has met its match with Flora Yukhnovich’s immersive “Four Seasons.” The “too muchness” of Rococo painting has met its match with Flora Yukhnovich’s immersive ...
Observer

Could Rococo’s Relatability Make It the Next Big Thing?

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The happy family, called Young couple contemplating a sleeping child, or The return home, or The reconciliation. Oil on canvas, 70 x 89 cm ...
The Art Newspaper

Visions of 18th-century France: how the Goncourt brothers taught America about Rococo

In May, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, opened the exhibition America Collects 18th-Century French Painting (until 20 August). The show, which includes 68 pictures, looks at the ...