During the eighteenth century, the Rococo style became predominant in European art and architecture. The style emphasized bright colors, elaborate ornamentation, and the use of playful designs and subject matter. While Rococo artists dominated Europe for decades, since the nineteenth century the style has been widely ridiculed.
Perhaps the most historically interesting reason that Rococo art lost popularity is that Rococo artists often worked for aristocratic patrons, decorating mansions and palaces. However, the late eighteenth century saw major political revolutions in Europe emphasizing social equality. Rococo artists, meanwhile, created overly elaborate, expensive art for wealthy audiences who exploited or ignored the working class. Rococo art came to symbolize the arrogance and vanity of the old ruling classes.
Rococo was also condemned for its frivolous subject matter. Later artistic movements often put great emphasis on creating art with positive social messages. Rococo artists, in contrast, tended to focus on non-serious subject matter, such as aristocrats playing games in the countryside or lovers on picnics. The artists’ lack of engagement with serious philosophical ideas meant their work had little depth or sophistication.
Finally, the Rococo’s emphasis on the use of expensive materials to create an illusion of opulence has also fallen into disfavor. Today, elements such as gilded surfaces and beaming cherubs, hallmarks of Rococo art, seem more gaudy than inspired. For generations of viewers, the style has come to epitomize the idea of “style over substance.” Its use of asymmetrical designs and emphasis on melodramatic uses of light and color often create an over-the-top rather than impressive effect.
Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge specific points made in the reading passage.
The lecture and the reading presents two contrasting views on Roccoco art. On one hand, the text condemns the work of Roccoco artists, on other, the lecturer has counter acted this claim by giving relevant examples.
First of all, the lecturer brings out the point that eventhough, Roccoco artists focussed on the weathly class, they were not alone in doing so. There were lot other artists who attracted the wealthy audiences. Additionally, the evidence is strenghtened by the fact that Roccoco arts were mostly done in churches which symbolises all the class of economic ladder. Clearly, this challenges the view presented in the text that Roccoco artists only depicted the wealthly people.
Second, frivolous subject matters of Roccoco arts, as criticized by the reading, is counter acted by the example given by the lecturer. She highlights about an art, done in Roccoco style, in which a girl is swinged by two men. The art is clearly not shallow and depicts deep meaning about these three people and the smile on their faces.
Lastly, the lecturer posits that, although, the modern art craves for simplicity, the Roccoco artists used different colors, experiments in their art that entices art lovers even after centuries. This is something exactly challenging the view mentioned in the reading, where the Roccoco art has been depicted as over ornamental and flamboyant.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, lastly, second, so, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1162.0 1373.03311258 85% => OK
No of words: 224.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1875 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86867284054 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55124456923 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.607142857143 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 345.6 419.366225166 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.4727907187 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.636363636 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3636363636 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.90909090909 7.06452816374 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.106917070555 0.272083759551 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0419754038987 0.0996497079465 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0358371354889 0.0662205650399 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0667221179473 0.162205337803 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0382156810543 0.0443174109184 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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