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Watteau and the fete galante.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
The fete galante (and the more rural version known as the fete champetre), was a particularly popular subject in early eighteenth-century France. It took up the medieval theme of the garden of courtly love, and translated it into contemporary terms, with exquisitely dressed couples lingering and frolicking in park or garden settings.
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The foremost practitioner of this genre was Jean Antoine Watteau, who was born in Valenciennes in 1684. He arrived in Paris in 1702 and spent most of his working life there. In 1717 he submitted his painting The Embarkation for Cythera (Musee du Louvre, Paris) and was duly accepted by the Academie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Two years later he contracted ...
- Phelan's fete galante. (artist Ellen Phelan)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Adams, Brooks November 1, 1994 700+ words
Throughout a career that encompasses abstractions, landscapes,flower paintings and, above all, her enigmatic studies of dolls, Ellen Phelan has probed the hidden links between conceptualism and representation. Elleen Phelan collects old dolls, some saved from childhood and others found in antique
- Harriet Shorr at Cheryl Pelavin.(NEW YORK)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Kernan, Nathan June 1, 2005 700+ words
...viewers to embark on their own reveries regarding memory, narrative, history and the nature of perception. Motifs of the fete galante turn up, as well, in several paintings that include a group of broken 18th-century porcelain figurines (lutenist, shepherdess...
- Kerry James Marshall at the Museum of Contemporary Art.(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Snodgrass, Susan October 1, 2004 700+ words
...Garden Party (both 2003)--one a painting, the other a DVD projection--are multiracial versions of the Impressionist fete galante. Marshall cast his net wide for this show and mostly succeeded, although there was some unevenness of craft, as well as...
- `Pastoral Landscape' creates an oasis for art lovers
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Mary Sherman December 4, 1988 700+ words
...Eventually, the genre made its way - slightly altered - to France, where Watteau emerged as the master of its variant, the "fete galante." Watteau's genius as presented in two oils, "The Enchanted Isle" and "Country Amusements," is shown to be too...
- The final take: Music Karina Cauvin can't live without.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada May 1, 2006 700+ words
...keyboard. Listening to this CD reminds me of his many pianistic talents. It also reminds me of our work together on our CD, Fete Galante, and of our numerous tours together. He's an enchanting colleague, a great friend and a huge talent. [ILLUSTRATION...
- Age of Splendor AND SLAUGHTER; French works show bright side of gory...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times October 18, 2003 700+ words
...Venetian Pleasures" in the first gallery. Painted at the beginning of the century for aristocratic buyers, it shows a "fete galante" (a favorite Watteau subject) in which noblemen and noblewomen pursue pleasures in an imaginary park. A dancing man in...
- France Shows Off Its Favorite Genre:Sex and Ironing.(Arts&Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) November 24, 2003 700+ words
...in the title, the show would be a capital event--but it also includes marvelous paintings by Nicolas Lancret, Jean-Baptiste Pater, Jean-Francois de Troy, Francois Boucher, Hubert Robert and, of course, Greuze. For me, the most delightful discovery...
- Watteau and the cultural politics of eighteenth-century France. (Book reviews -...
- Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies Leigh, John June 1, 2001 700+ words
...militates against glory. She then examines the more familiar 'fete galante' genre before addressing questions of high and low culture...genres. While Watteau's provocation of a new genre, the 'fete galante', is familiar, his play with hierarchies within other...
