How To Use Fragonard In A Sentence
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Fragonard and Watteau created frothy paeans to the pleasures of surface, frivolity, and irresponsibility.
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On behalf of the French painters Watteau , Boucher and Fragonard.
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Poussin's A Dance to the Music of Time, countless paintings by Fragonard, Rubens, Reynolds, not to mention acres of armor-is sometimes described as a staid museum.
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Fragonard's famously teasy painting of The Swing is re-created with the addition of a tribal peekaboo dress.
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He knew little, even less than Watteau and far less than Boucher and Fragonard, about the myths versified by Ovid and depicted by the flighty polychromatic cloud-scapers of Versailles.
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Sometimes a point is made almost too fully, as when no fewer than 29 paintings by Giorgio de Chirico detail his borrowings from Raphael, Titian, Guido Reni, Watteau and Fragonard in all their hideosity.
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By and large, they had to forget about big names — although a few good examples are here: three Bouchers, three Fragonards, two Houdons, a Guardi party, a Jordaens orgy, an Ingres Madonna.
Nice Wing, Pity About the Art
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It was in these romantic gardens, with their fountains, grottos, temples and terraces, that Fragonard conceived the dreams which he was subsequently to render in his art.
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Flowered silks frothed over crinoline skirts in a twisted take on the milkmaids immortalized by 18th century painter Fragonard.
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But in terms of mapping homosocialities, Yuskavage's fusing of the hetero-male and lesbian homosocial erotic iconographies gives her paintings the allure of women's empowerment derived from their seizure, repackaging, and recontextualization of the male pin-up and art history Fragonard, Boucher, Tolouse-Lautrec.
G. Roger Denson: Women's Art of Renewal: Carrie Mae Weems, Vanessa Beecroft, Sharon Lockhart, Catherine Opie and Lisa Yuskavage