Word: rococo
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...18th century, the favorite of Louis XV and his mistress Madame de Pompadour. Born in 1703, Boucher lived through the climax of the ancien régime and died less than two decades before it did. "In him," wrote Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, in their great defense of rococo art published almost a century after the death of Boucher, "French 18th century taste was manifest, in all the peculiarity of his character. Boucher was not only its painter but its chief witness, its chief representative, its very type...
With the coming of sound. Ford adopted the modern artist's essential rule: less is more. Other directors used scripts that chattered merely to fill the air. Ford insisted on terse dialogue and let the camera narrate. As a result, when most '30s films became rococo antiques...
...After two years with Korman, she joined C.M.A., where her salary is now close to what those others at William Morris used to make. She also has an expense account that runs to some $8,000 a year just for the all-important parties she throws in her outrageously rococo Beverly Hills "palazzo...
...only thing that really interests him. It is thus natural for him to see Ludwig's molars as the mirror of his soul, while ignoring the fact that quite another side of the royal character was expressed in such glorious excesses as the romantic Schloss Neuschwanstein, the rococo Linderhof, and the unfinished imitation of Versailles, Schloss Herrenchiemsee. Ludwig's edifice complex may nearly have bankrupted his kingdom and cost him his throne, but he was, lunatic or not, the last great master builder of the Romantic...
...exasperating, a rococo grandeur that has grown somehow galling, for it is the disease of a talent bankrupt for substance. Fellini has lost his sense of connection. The camera flits over the poverty-ridden, the deformed, the filth and litter of fascism and war, turning the plagues of Rome into perverse filmic display...