Antoine Watteau and Marc Chagall

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This paper discusses how artists in different eras can address the same general subject and produce very different works, as can be seen by a comparison of two paintings on love, "The Pleasures of Love" by Antoine Watteau and "The Birthday by Marc Chagall". The paper attempts to show how both works, some two centuries apart in time and very far apart in terms of style, give interesting images of love and of the way love separates lovers from the world and places them in a place all their own.

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"The Watteau was painted in 1719 and is a colorful scene showing a number of courtly persons on a wooded site, with the central group consisting of four couples, and with other couples seen off to either side. They are grouped before a statue of Venus, with Cupid hanging onto her leg. The work is one of a genre called fetes galantes, or "romantic and idealized scenes [that] depict elaborately costumed ladies and gentlemen at play in fanciful outdoor settings" (Watteau, Jean-Antoine, 2002, para. 1). "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Marc Chagall Biography - 1887-1985 (2006). Artelino, retrieved November 18, 2006 from http://www.artelino.com/articles/marc_chagall.asp.
• Watteau, Jean Antoine (21002). WebMuseum, Paris, retrieved November 18, 2006 from http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/watteau/.

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