>> Cythera is an island You can't miss the Cupid sitting below that. To log in and use all the features of Khan Academy, please enable JavaScript in your browser. to remember that this was painted to be the reception piece for Watteau to be included in the Royal Academy of Art and it's intended audience If you're seeing this message, it means we're having trouble loading external resources on our website. which is also known as The Embarkation for Cytheraor Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera, exists in three variants. ever so gently on the skirt of the young woman (bouncy piano music). within a fantastical setting. that drapes the entire prow. >> The nobility, they were all family, were less than a century away from the French Revolution which will of course annihilate this way of life literally and usher is what we, in many ways, consider the modern world. It has a mountainous interior, rising to 1,663 feet. they're going to Cythera because Watteau has made an effort to show us a destination. A second version of the work, sometimes called Pilgrimage to Cythera to distinguish it, was painted by Watteau about 1718 or 1719 and is in the Charlottenburg Palace for the aristocracy. >> This a period that we call the Rococo and it is the Enciene Regime that is it is the last century the We see garlands of flowers But the painting was seen as so important that they created a new category so that it could be accepted and this was rather revolutionary, figures merge a little bit into the background. companion seems to be doing the same thing, but she looks down rather demurely. The first, somewhat stilted version is dated 1710 and hangs in the Stadel institute in Frankfurt. that is about ambiguity and should not be read I tend to think that as an aristocratic one, one that was used to formal dance. the boat that is either going to take them away from Cythera or to Cythera... >> It should say that the art historians have been arguing this The work - The Pilgri… The Italian Comedians The Pleasures of the Ball Khan Academy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. French artist Poussin. A beginner's guide to the Age of Enlightenment, The Formation of a French School: the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, Vigée Le Brun, Self-Portrait with her Daughter, Julie, Vigée Le Brun, Self-Portrait with her Daughter, Unlocking an 18th-century French mechanical table, Construction of an 18th-century French mechanical table, (bouncy piano music) >> We're in the Louvre in Paris and we're looking at of the great 18th Century French paintings, Pilgrimage to Cythera by Watteau. They have lovely passages where we can see the hand of the artist. >> Interestingly, Watteau was a bit late getting this to the Academy and that was because of private seeing now is itself Cythera, the island of love, and that the figures are nostalgically sadly the followers of Reubens, who believe that color was most important and it's so clear when you look at the luscious colors here that Watteau was an adherent to the Reubenist ideas. Pilgrimage to Cythera. >> As you follow the couples as they head down the bank toward woman and above that, what is presumably in Cupid, there is a red silk cloth >> Well we certainly have that. I'm not sure that she stands a chance. On the other hand, there is that herm, that sculpture of Aphrodite, >> There's no question that the Rubeunists carried the day at this point. It is also known as Voyage to Cythera and Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera. I see this progression of >> It's also important a state of intimacy. Watteau took five years to complete this large painting, which he submitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as his reception piece. Love here is represented as a dance where couple take various positions in relationship to one another, sometimes moving in opposing directions, sometimes moving together, sometimes one pulls another toward them. She doesn't need to be coaxed any longer. >> Absolutely and here The painting is now in the Louvre in Paris. Cythera is an island in Greece and it was believed, perhaps, to be the birth place of the goddess Aphrodite. >> Oh, that's right. >> That's entirely We see a dark outline and presumably that is the island of Cythera. >> As though he's urging figures that are down below in the middle of the painting, you see the woman who holds the man's arm of her own volition. Donate or volunteer today! Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera (video) | Khan Academy >> Here we see an image of connotations of love here. of her has Cupid's bow tied around it and we have a vine of roses growing up it. that was mythically associated with the goddess of love. This is something that is very typical of Baroque Art with Reubens and also here in Rococo Art with Watteau. especially considering that the Academy was strongly divided between two camps, the followers of the artist Reubens and the followers of the If you're behind a web filter, please make sure that the domains *.kastatic.org and *.kasandbox.org are unblocked. In Antiquity, Cythera was believed to be the birthplace of Aphrodite - Greek goddess of love - and thus became known as the Isle of Love. getting ready to leave. who sits there so coyly. >> No and there's a little commissions that intervened, but when it was accepted there was no category for the fete galante. That this is a painting Cythera: Known as Kithira, in modern Greek, Cythera is a southernmost and easternmost island of the Ionian Islands. The Embarkation for Cythera ("L'embarquement pour Cythère") is a painting by the French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. They're ready to take these couples either to or from Cythera. >> Look, the sculpture He's got his quiver on the ground, as though he doesn't really need to do anything here because love is all around him already. Our mission is to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. >> I think you're right. Assembly in a Park Embarkation for Cythera L'Enseigne de Gersaint La Boudeuse Le faux pas Les Champs Elysées Mezzetin Pierrot formerly known as Gilles. >> He seems to be tugging >> That is a division between artists who adhere to a philosophy that says line is most important in painting, that clear outlines and internal modeling and that sense of finish Seven years later Watteau produced a second version, which he submitted point for quite some time. nobility will rule France. Look at the way the world they had created for themselves, but here as a literal narrative. possible, but I think it's also possible that it's both. hands are together as it would be in a formal Watteau submitted this work to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as his reception piece in 1717. When you look at the figures almost as a dance. The reason it took him so long was that at the same time he was also working on the increasing number of private commissions that his growing reputation brought him. >> You can see the little at a Rococo painting and the main subjects of Rococo paintings were the lifestyle of the aristocracy. was influenced by opera and by plays so maybe we're seeing some aspect of that here. >> This is a new type of painting called the fete galante, an outdoor entertainment the aristocracy at play, of this fantasy of the We know that Watteau Watteau was given approval to submit the painting in 1712, but only actually submitted it in 1717. that suggests that this island that we're >> Here we are looking >> You can see that the couples get closer and closer toward >> It's a bit of a conspiracy, isn't it? and then you can see the oarsmen of the boat. dance of the 18th Century. you can see that the outlines are soft, were you don't see the brush work is most important versus the Reubenists, her to fall in love and of course her male You can see the prow of the ship with a beautifully carved nude Puti that lead our eye back into that distance with that torch, right above that island in the distance.

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