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Main article: Painting Rococo Pilgrimage to Cythera by Jean-Antoine Watteau (1721, Louvre). Although the Rococo must originate purely decorative arts, the style showed its influence in the painting, reaching its heyday in the 1730s. This painting should be called properly as Galante Painting Rococo painting and not because this term encompasses the aesthetic context in which it was. The painters used light colors and delicate, curvilinear shapes, fabrics decorate the cherubim and myths of love. His landscapes and pastoral fete galante meals often gathered on the grass of aristocratic characters, love affairs and courtesans. Ali Aboutaam Mythological characters that were recovered at the scenes intermingle, providing them with sensuality, joy and freshness.The portrait was also popular among Rococo painters, in which the characters are portrayed with great elegance, based on the artificiality of life and environments palace courtiers, reflecting a friendly image of society in transformation. Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) is considered the most important Rococo painter, creator of a new genre of painting: the "f tes Gallant (gallant festivals), with scenes laced with a lyrical eroticism. Watteau, despite dying at age 35 had a great influence on his successors, including Fran ois Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Honor Fragonard (1732-1806), two masters of the late period. Also the delicate touch and sensitivity of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) reflect the spirit of rococo.