During the eighteenth century, the Rococo style became predominant in European art and architecture. The style emphasized bright colors, elaborate ornamentation, and the use of playful designs and subject matter. While Rococo artists dominated Europe for decades, since the nineteenth century the style has been widely ridiculed.
Perhaps the most historically interesting reason that Rococo art lost popularity is that Rococo artists often worked for aristocratic patrons, decorating mansions and palaces. However, the late eighteenth century saw major political revolutions in Europe emphasizing social equality. Rococo artists, meanwhile, created overly elaborate, expensive art for wealthy audiences who exploited or ignored the working class. Rococo art came to symbolize the arrogance and vanity of the old ruling classes.
Rococo was also condemned for its frivolous subject matter. Later artistic movements often put great emphasis on creating art with positive social messages. Rococo artists, in contrast, tended to focus on non-serious subject matter, such as aristocrats playing games in the countryside or lovers on picnics. The artists’ lack of engagement with serious philosophical ideas meant their work had little depth or sophistication.
Finally, the Rococo’s emphasis on the use of expensive materials to create an illusion of opulence has also fallen into disfavor. Today, elements such as gilded surfaces and beaming cherubs, hallmarks of Rococo art, seem more gaudy than inspired. For generations of viewers, the style has come to epitomize the idea of “style over substance.” Its use of asymmetrical designs and emphasis on melodramatic uses of light and color often create an over-the-top rather than impressive effect.
Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge specific points made in the reading passage.
The lecture and article both are about the Rococo style of painting, which is very famous in the eighteenth century. The author of reading believes that this style lost its popularity now. However, the lecturer casts doubts on the claims made in the article. He thinks that the reading overstates the actual situation.
First of all, the author points out that Rococo style lost its value during a major political change happened in europe during eighteenth centruy. It is mentioned that the major focus of this style on aristocratic patterns is the reason for its downfall. This point is challanged by the lecturer. She says that Rococo style artists not only worked for the ruling class but also for the churches. She further argues that working for the churches shows that Rococo style artists contribution to all elements of society.
Secondly, the author contends that the paintings created by Rococo style artists does not have a focus on philosophical ideas. The lecturer rebuts this argument by giving the example about the "Swing" painting made by these artisits. She also adds that the facial expressions of the two men pushing a women sitting in a swing shows the intricacies this style of painting has.
Finally, the author states that paintings of Rococo style artists are careless in nature and they lacked substance. The lectuer, on otherhand, posits that this is an opinion and the experiementation these artists made with flamboyant colors is still impressing many people.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 312, Rule ID: WOMAN_WOMEN[1]
Message: 'woman' is the singular form of 'women'. Consider using 'woman'?
Suggestion: woman
...al expressions of the two men pushing a women sitting in a swing shows the intricacie...
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Line 7, column 242, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...ese artists made with flamboyant colors is still impressing many people.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, second, secondly, so, still, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1264.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 245.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15918367347 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95632099841 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67568376902 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542857142857 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 382.5 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.1930807887 49.2860985944 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.2857142857 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.25227255551 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0886553334739 0.0996497079465 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0732227087459 0.0662205650399 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148950627063 0.162205337803 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0667929373499 0.0443174109184 151% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.35 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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