Self-Portrait by Le Brun was created for the purpose of showing off her status as a painter for the king of France. This idea is shown through small details like the fancy dress she wears (which isn’t really what artists would wear if they’re doing something as messy as painting), as well as the fact that she’s painting the queen on a canvas.
As stated, I recycled the composition of this piece to use in my own artwork. My main reason for doing that is just to show a happier idealized version of Squidward just doing what he really wants to do most, paint!
The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard shows a pretty good example of the playfulness Rococo art had. This piece was commissioned by the lover of the figure in the painting, & depicts the commissioner’s partner on a swing while the commissioner takes a peek up her dress, which probably would’ve been a very playful thing in the past, but as of today’s standards it’s actually pretty creepy & weird. Due to the nature of the subject, this painting was most likely for the commissioner’s house, which meant it would’ve been kept private. The subject of the piece also shows a lot of movement, in the way her dress flows as well as the fact that she has launched her shoe from the swing; these elements show us some of the ideas kept from the Baroque period.
The key elements I took from this piece to use in my own masterpiece were the bright colors Fragonard had used along with the general free flowing nature the background was composed of. These elements I felt were pretty much at the heart of the Rococo period, so I chucked them in to give my piece more of that style.
