blog assignment 2

Integrated rococo carving, stucco and fresco at Zwiefalten

One of the continuing curve in design can identify from integrated rococo carving, stucco and fresco at Zwiefalten.  I believe this stucco and fresco represent a result of the "sensuous impulse" in Rococo style.  The stylistic movement known as rococo, which began in eighteenth-century France. It has infused design objects with a sinuous, organic, and sensuous impulse for three centuries.
Rococo style was a palace art and this style was deriving from French classicism.  However, French classicism was not very rigorous before eighteenth-century.

Rococo style, in other cause,inspired from "Learning from Nature". In particular, by the end of the king's long reign, rich Baroque designs were giving way to lighter elements with more curves and natural patterns. But it was not an inevitable consequence of the Italian Baroque style. During that period,  "Learning from Nature" just let nature subject to society , but society was not ready to make people feel in their natural being. Thus, the painters, sculptors, and wood house at that time were all the people flocking to the Rococo culture.  Rococo style was in every everywhere and every corner of society included royal paintings, architecture, and clothing. Though Rococo style admired by royal social class and became shine and glorious, it lost its initial concept of being nature.  Unfortunately, the characteristic of winding curves of Rococo style limited designers' creativities.  For example, the painters and sculptors tried to impress nobility by overuse continuing curve, instead of developing other techniques that might worked well in Rococo style as well. Especially, the late Rococo was too flashy and meaningless.