 Cave Paintings are the earliest form

of human graphic design.

 They are the first pictographs that

humans had used to visually
communicate.
 7 oldest
caving
paintings in
the world
 Magura Cave
Date: 6300 BC – 3000 BC
Location: Bulgaria
Subject: Silhouettes of women, males hunting and
dancing, animals, people wearing masks, plants,
tools, and stars.
 Cueva de las Manos
Date: 7000 BC
Location: Argentina
Subject: Outlines of human hands
 Laas Gaal
Date: 9,000 BC – 3000 BC
Location: Somalia
Subject: Cows in ceremonial robes that are
accompanied by a giraffe, domesticated dogs, and
humans.
 Bhimbetka
Date: 13,000 BC to 12,700 BC
Location: Bhopal
Subject: Animals like tiger, bison, wild boar, rhinoceros,
monkeys, elephants, lizards, antelopes, peacocks etc. have
abundantly been depicted inside these rock shelters.
 Lascaux Paintings

Date: 17,000 years old

Location: France
Subject: deer, horses, and bulls
 Serra da Capivara

Date: 23,000 BC
Location: Brazil
Subject: Scenes of hunting and rituals, animals, and trees.
 Altamira Cave

Date: 35,600 years ago

Location: Spain
Subject: Ochre and charcoal images of handprints, bison, and
horses.
Rococo Graphic
Design
 Rocaille – rock and shell garden
ornamentation.
 Rococo style in interior design, the
decorative arts, painting, architecture,
and sculpture that originated in Paris in
the early 18th century but was soon
adopted throughout France and later in
other countries, principally Germany and
Austria.
 In the late 17th and early 18th century rocaille became
the term for a kind of decorative motif or ornament that
appeared in the late Style Louis XIV, in the form of a
seashell interlaced with acanthus leaves.

• In 1736 the designer and

jeweler Jean Mondon
published the Premier
Livre de forme rocquaille
et cartel, a collection of
designs for ornaments of
furniture and interior
decoration. It was the
first appearance in print
of the term "rocaille" to
designate the style.
 1825 -the term rococo was first used in print, to
describe decoration which was "out of style and
old-fashioned.“
 1828 - it was used for decoration "which belonged
to the style of the 18th century, overloaded with
twisting ornaments.“
 1829 the author Stendhal described rococo as "the
rocaille style of the 18th century.
 9th century, the term was used to describe
architecture or music which was excessively
ornamental.
 mid-19th century, the term has been accepted by
art historians.
 It is characterized by lightness, elegance, and an
exuberant use of curving natural forms in
ornamentation.
 The exteriors of Rococo buildings are often simple,
while the interiors are entirely dominated by their
ornament.
 The style was highly theatrical, designed to impress
and awe at first sight. Floor plans of churches were
often complex, featuring interlocking ovals; In palaces,
grand stairways became centerpieces, and offered
different points of view of the decoration
 The style often integrated painting, molded stucco,
and wood carving, and quadratura, or illusionist
ceiling paintings, which were designed to give the
impression that those entering the room were looking
up at the sky, where cherubs and other figures were
gazing down at them.
 The Rococo style was also manifested in the decorative
arts. Its asymmetrical forms and rocaille ornament
were quickly adapted to silver and porcelain, and
French furniture of the period also displayed curving
forms, naturalistic shell and floral ornament, and a
more elaborate, playful use of gilt-bronze and
porcelain ornamentation.
 Rococo painting in France began with the
graceful, gently melancholic paintings of
Antoine Watteau, culminated in the
playful and sensuous nudes of François
Boucher, and ended with the freely painted
genre scenes of Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
Rococo portraiture had its finest
practitioners in Jean-Marc Nattier and
Jean-Baptiste Perroneau.
 French Rococo painting in general was
characterized by easygoing, lighthearted
treatments of mythological and courtship
themes, rich and delicate brushwork, a
relatively light tonal key, and sensuous
colouring. Rococo sculpture was notable for
its intimate scale, its naturalism, and its
varied surface effects.
Antoine Watteau The Scale of Love

Studies of a Woman Playing a Guitar, or

Holding a Musical Score Pierrot, formerly known as Gilles
 The Breakfast

François Boucher

Odalisque
The Triumph of Venus
 The Swing

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The Bathers The Progress of Love: Love Letters

Jean-Marc Nattier
Jean-Baptiste Perroneau

A girl with a kitten

Madame de Sorquainville
  In Italy the Rococo style was concentrated primarily in
Venice, where it was epitomized by the large-scale
decorative paintings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

Giovanni Battista
  The urban vistas of Francesco Guardi and Canaletto
were also influenced by the Rococo.

View on the Cannaregio Canal, Venice

Francesco Guardi
 Veduta ideata with Roman Ruins
Canaletto

The Rialto Bridge from the North

The Clock Tower in the Piazza San

Marco, Venice
 The French Revolution effectively
ended the French rule of Louis XVI and
the political climate that Rococo art
revolved around.
 The end of this rule was brought about
by revolts that effectively ended the
French monarchy and put Napoleon in
place.
 The art that would later become favoured
would be the styles of Neoclassicism and the
art that came out of the Age of
Enlightenment.
 Some writers and critics, such as Voltaire,
also regarded the period of art as being too
superficial and later becoming "degenerate".
Neoclassicism would be what replaced
Rococo art in France.