Peter Paul Rubens painted “Garden of Love” in 1633 with the Baroque style. While Jean-Antoine Watteau painted “Pilgrimage to Cythera” in 1720 with the Early Rococo style. Both are made in an illuminating colored style and are brightly colored. When in fact they are 100 years apart and have distinct differences. These 100 years was what helped shape the Early Rococo style and later change the style as a whole. Now, let’s start with the “Garden of Love” and move up in the timeline. Ruben painted the scene with a Baroque style and made it an extravagant and emotionally scene of celebration for his marriage to his second wife, Helena Fourment. The celebration takes place outside his home in a relaxed and flirtatious atmosphere; the group of people in the painting are flirting and showing no care to the world. If to invite a more dramatic scene, he paints cupids, a pair of doves, and a yolk carried by a cupid (means conjugal love) to emphasize that there is love in the “air”. He even uses sculptures of the three Graces (charm, beauty, and joy), Venus
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He was heavily influenced by Classicism and his paintings and architecture showed remarkable Classicism/Baroque standards together. Thus, he employed regulations and a standard in art (excluding architecture). This imposed a French Classicism and he even formed a school called the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture to paint to that standard. At one point, an argument broke out in the Royal Academy on whether a drawing or color was more important in painting. As a result, two groups emerged called the Rubenists (color) and Poussinists (drawings) which divided the Academy. Upon Charles death in 1695, the argument grew gradually and Classicism in France no longer sufficed in art. Thus, all was needed was a catalyst and Watteau’s work spurred the revival and even the evolution of the Baroque
He was heavily influenced by Classicism and his paintings and architecture showed remarkable Classicism/Baroque standards together. Thus, he employed regulations and a standard in art (excluding architecture). This imposed a French Classicism and he even formed a school called the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture to paint to that standard. At one point, an argument broke out in the Royal Academy on whether a drawing or color was more important in painting. As a result, two groups emerged called the Rubenists (color) and Poussinists (drawings) which divided the Academy. Upon Charles death in 1695, the argument grew gradually and Classicism in France no longer sufficed in art. Thus, all was needed was a catalyst and Watteau’s work spurred the revival and even the evolution of the Baroque