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Venus Consoling Love, François Boucher, 1751

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Original – A diagonal composition, lovely, fast strokes, only a great painter handles the brush like this. Rococo artists such as Boucher turned away from the chiaroscuro of Christian subjects dominating the Baroque era towards the Arcadian visions of pleasure and delight. ^{The expressions of beauty free from moral strictures became less fashionable after the butchery of the French Revolution, when a new morality emerged based on political grounds.}

External videos
See also video "Boucher's - Venus Consoling Love" from Smarthistory

Reason

François Boucher's Venus, the beginning of Fairy painting style, maybe? Boucher (1703–1770) was the central figure of the Rococo, and excels in depicting the eternal feminine. There is more behind Boucher that it reveals at first sight, he was actually a very good painter, he handles his brush with great knowledge, creating exquisite details with fast, flying brushstrokes ^{(if you take the trouble too look close, will notice it)}. Considered more robust than Watteau, the other leading Rococo painter, Boucher is noted even nowadays for his limitless veneration of the timeless feminine beauty.
"Boucer is approaching his subject, the feminine body with real respect and esteem,' he is not a bit frivolous in that sense."^{(Beckett 1994, p. 128)} He was court painter and the personal favourite of the French king, Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour. His voluptuous depictions of mythological themes were much appreciated. Rococo was a free, playful, decorative, and ornamental style.

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Venus Consoling Love, François Boucher,

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Artwork/Paintings

Creator

François Boucher

• Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 11:02, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Very interesting painting. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:35, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support Yann (talk) 15:56, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support – excellent quality; interesting artist. SagaciousPhil - Chat 14:45, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support National Names 2000 (talk) 01:15, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Venus Consoling Love, François Boucher, 1751.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:08, 14 December 2014 (UTC)