Blog Assignment 2

This Rococo gold cast 18th century lounge sweet encompasses the style aesthetics common to the Rococo design revolution. Note the exaggerated senuous curves present in the ornamental styling and decorative flamboyance of the gold casted embellishments. This design sense is a result of popular aesthetic at the time in which it was created, a time when form-follows-function had not been concieved and beauty and decoration came first.

The design is impulsive of the organic natural focus of the Rococo period, studying the natural curves present in nature was the way in which individuality came through innovation. The design and styling of Rococo design was a fundamental mimesis of the natural. This can be seen in the lounge sweet above, it shows the direct mimesis of the natural 'S' shape found in the leafs of plants. 

Rococo style was very much focused on the natural shapes of common fauna, utilising the shapes and through the media of gold and silver casting the forms of these shapes as exact representations with no abstraction or form or shape, and the example above is a perfect example of Rococo styling.