Stressed out from working overtime? Is life getting to you? Are you just depressed? The cure I have won't cost you more than 10 dollars.  I prescribe you to visit the museum and it should be able to cure any bad day.  It will not just liven up your day but it will relax you and will take you to a serene place, away from the hectic world we live in.  The Met is a huge place, filled with artwork by some of the most famous artists in the world.  It easy for someone to get lost and it is almost impossible to see everything in one day.  What I would like to bring attention to is Rococo Art. 

The Rococo art gallery is located in the second floor, section 18.  This section is sometimes overlooked because the Met hosts so many great art works by famous artists such as Picasso, David, Cezan, Vincent Van Gough, and Claude Monet; that visitors are more inclined to go seek their work out so they can absorb some of the greatest pieces of art in history.  That is why most people tend to overlook Rococo because by the time they finish with Picasso and Matise, their day is over.  Also people are unaware of what Rococo is.

Rococo flourished for a short period of time from 1700-1780 in Western Europe.  The word means a fanciful rock or shell design in French.  Rococo was very popular inn France since it embodied all the qualities that the French loved.  The paintings were elegant, rich, and lively.  The leading artists of this art form were Antoine Watteau, Francois Boucher, and Jean Honore Fragonard.  Rococo paintings reflected scenes from classical myths and usually were intimate in scale and delicate in manner.  These artists also created a new category of painting called the fete galante.  These painting showed gatherings of figures dressed elegantly in parks and gardens.  Rococo wasn't’t just an art form but it was a decorative style too.  It was applied to furniture, porcelain, tapestries, and architecture too.  Rococo architecture reached its height in Southern Germany and Austria where palaces, monasteries, and churches there were heavily decorated in Rococo style.