La Fête Galante
La Fête Galante
Fete galante paintings are an important part of the rococo period of art.
Since summer 2023 I take life a little lighter …
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and worked on a new series of collage works entitled “La Fete Galante”.
The Fete Galante paintings were a genre within the French 18th century rococo period of art.
I especially like Antoine Watteau’s (1684-1721) mixing of theater life with real life. In a way that the boundary between the two is completely blurred.
The lightness of being, the relaxed atmosphere, the costumes and the appreciation for intimacy: I find it all very appealing and tried to catch this joie de vivre, this lifestyle of la vie en rose in my latest art.🌹😘
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Here you see another work from my sketchboard.
In the meantime I am still working on the fascinating La Fête Galante series.
In this post I focus on the dance, one of the staples of this genre.
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The painter Nicolas Lancret painted a very beautiful painting around 1730 entitled La Camargo Dancing. Nicolas Lancret was one of Antoine Watteau’s most talented followers and helped to disseminate the taste for fête-galante subjects in the eighteenth century.
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Lancret, like Watteau, was often inspired by the stage, and the female dancer depicted here is Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, a ballet star of the Paris Opéra. La Camargo is dressed in a white gown embroidered with flowers, suggesting a pastoral opera. She is gracefully poised and her partner’s gestures subtly mirror her movements. Camargo, who was immensely talented, expanded the repertoire of eighteenth-century ballet with new steps that encouraged active footwork. To facilitate her movements, she shortened her skirts and may have been one of the first dancers to wear ballet slippers.
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See also https://www.patrickkoster.nl/artwork/fete-galante/
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This is my sketch board.
Let’s zoom in to check some studies of Mezzetino for the Fête Galante series.
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Mezzetino was a comedy character, based on Harlequin but with his own distinctive costume, who was introduced for the first time by the Théâtre italien de Paris actor, Angelo Costantini. His expressive face allowed him to portray the role without a mask, a tradition kept alive by all successive Mezzetinos. That novelty attracted Watteau, who featured Mezzetino in several of his works.
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See also www.patrickkoster.com | https://www.patrickkoster.nl/artwork/fete-galante/
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Sower and Reaper at Rest, 2020
Anolog collage and drawing on paper No.6042023, h 11 x w 8.3 inch (h 28 x w 21,1 cm), felt pen, fineliner, adhesive tape, paper on paper
From the series: On Paper, Parable of the Soils
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La Fête Galante 8, Mezzetino tuning his guitar, 2024, h 50 x w 36 cm (h 19.8 x w 14.2 inch), analog, hand-cut collage, paper, print on paper
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Mezzetino, tuning his guitar while dressed in a Van Dyck civil war costume.
Mezzetino was a comedy character, based on Harlequin but with his own distinctive costume, who was introduced for the first time by the Théâtre italien de Paris actor Angelo Costantini on October 16, 1683. Constantini’s expressive face allowed him to portray the role without a mask, a tradition kept alive by all successive Mezzetinos. That novelty attracted Watteau, who featured Mezzetino in several of his works.
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I depict the series La Fete Galante at a time when there is a lot of unrest in the world. Through the treatment of the theme, I express the wish for more respect, grace, courtesy and peace-lovingness, in small and large.
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See also https://www.patrickkoster.nl/artwork/fete-galante/
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