Friday, September 12, 2008

Fragonard's The Swing foreshadows 21st Century society


Painted during the Roccoco Period of art by one of the famous artists of that time Fragonard. As a student of Boucher, another famous Rococo artist Fragonard's paintings were approximately forty years after his teacher Boucher. However much of Fragonard's works were rather popular than Boucher's. Boucher's works brought the fsentiment of nature and expressed the playful feelings within his paintings to the audience.
Boucher's paintings were much different than his student Fragonard. Although the viewers can see the nature within Boucher's, people can sense the sexual theme in Fragonard's art style. One of Fragonard's magnificent peice of art " The Swing" illustrated to the audiences a scenery of two men and one woman grasping a rope swinging from a tree and one of the two male individuals in the painting was peeking under her dress while the other man pushed the rope to go higher to give the other person a clearer view. This relate to the 21st century as sex is just a normal subject in our everyday's life. This picture was painted in the 18th century which was just before the Victorian period. The woman in this picture represent the female individuals in our society today. The women in our society today are more open to the subject of sex which the audiences can see through " The Swing" by Fragonard during the Rococo Period.

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