Boucher francois biography of barack

The dominant artistic taste of the 18th Century can represented by the work of just one artist, that of the French painter François Boucher.

While this might be an overstatement, Boucher was the undisputed master of the Rococo style. Think of aristocratic women in the French royal court wearing sumptuous flowing gowns of silk and lace, surrounded by flowers and pudgy naked cherub-children — then you’ll get the idea of what Boucher’s work represents.

François Boucher was born in 1703 near the beginning of a century his name would become associated with for the rest of history, at least in terms of European art.

He is often referred to as a “decorative artist” because his paintings were both inspired and influenced the interiors designs of the fabulou