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00ROCOCO: The Continuing Curve02br
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00 The Rococo exhibition at Cooper-Hewitt museum dazzles the audience with brilliance. The splendor from “the continuing curve” and gaudy ornamentation holds the audience’s attention. Rococo emerged during the reign of Louis XV. The king and his mistress Madame de Pompadour fully supported the rococo style since they wanted to show off their wealth and extravagant life.01sup
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01span00[1]02span02a00 Thus, Rococo had to be focused on decoration rather than structural form of objects. The guide of the museum trip explained that Rococo was almost about interior design not architecture in contrast to Baroque whose main idea was strongly attached to architecture. Craftworkers in Rococo period must have been too busy to think about structural form, making everything splendid and gaudy to satisfy their patrons, kings and aristocrats.02br
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01span01i00[2]02i02span02a00 is one of Rococo object being exhibited at Cooper-Hewitt museum. Craftworkers with excellent skill added a brilliant handle to the porcelain. Not only does the handle have elegant curve, but it also has ornaments that resemble leaves. Even though Rococo borrowed its decorative style from nature, the decoration does not look natural. This is because the decoration does not have any purpose, but everything in nature has its own purpose. Not only that, those decorations during Rococo period helped deteriorate the society. Regardless of French royal finances in bad condition, the upper class continued to squander money for their expensive taste. Robert Matteson Johnston noted in his book 01i
00The French Revolution02i00 that “it was to consider a financial problem that the States-General were summoned in 1789; while most of the riots that broke out in Paris that same year were due to scarcity of food.”01a
01span00[3]02span02a00 Indeed, pouring money into Rococo ornament was a terrible mistake as Adolf Loos, an Austrian Modern architecture, claimed that ornament was a crime in his article 01i
00Ornament and Crime02i00. He argues, “in economic respects it is a crime, in that it leads to the waste of human labor, money, and materials. That is damage time cannot repair.”01a
01span00[4]02span02a00 As a matter of fact, French upper class could not have time to “repair” their mistake, causing the riots themselves.02br
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00If one say that Rococo was purely for people’s aesthetic mind, I should ask whose aesthetic mind it is for. The period Rococo dominated was from 1730s to 1760s. French revolution occurred in 1789; of course, there were various factors that caused the revolution. Nevertheless, it is true that too many people suffered from famine while kings, queens, and aristocrats in the court enjoyed their extravagant life at that time. The porcelain was from China, which means they mulled over ways to expand their luxury taste whether people who actually support their livelihood died or not. Had they paid attention to people starving to death, the bloody revolution would have never happened or been bloody.02br
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05102span00 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 05000. 02br
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05302span00 Robert Matteson Johnston, 01i
00The French Revolution: A Short History02i00 (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1909), 002500.02br
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05402span00 Adolf Loos, “Ornament and Crime (1929),” ed. Adolf Opel, trans. Michael Mitchell, 01i
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