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Ornamental Style:
Rococo. Classical baroque modulated into a lighter, more playful style in the early 1700's, and this trend culminated in the rococo style about 1725. Unlike classical baroque, rococo prefers asymmetry and searches for swirling movement and rich surface animation. Rococo is primarily an ornamental style, and the apparently irregular appearance of a rococo object is often found to be a matter of decoration, not of underlying form. The favorite decorative motifs are naturalistic.There is something rather ambiguous about Jacqueline in this picture: is she really sitting in a wicker chair, or is her head just part of the painting in the background, on an otherwise empty piece of canvas? Probably, this interior was not actually influenced by Henri Matisse, as some people think. Nor should it be looked at in terms of large patches and an ornamental style. Rather, it shows his great sensitivity towards Art and his use of mannerist style in deliberately confusing the onlooker with conflicting realities.
Baroque. The baroque style replaced the auricular style in mid-17th century. The baroque returned to symmetry, introducing big bulbous forms and an ornamental vocabulary of fruit, flowers, and animals, broadly rendered in high relief, usually by embossing, a favorite technique in an age of economic recession, when the maximum effect was sought from thin silver.
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