Talula just wanted to flirt in the garden.
Not fret.
She also loves the dreamlike fantasy world of Watteau. The magic of theater which is also a basis of who Talula Love Bottoms is.
Who is Talula Love Bottoms by the way? Do you know? For sure?
In his masterpiece "Garsaint's Shop Sign" 1720. Talula is the seated woman who is the focus of the artwork. Just for today.
She wanted to be dancing in the gardens of Versailles amongst the orange trees...but her fear of Louis XIV kept her more of a townie...although; she eventually became more than that as the mistress of Louis XV. Anyhoot...that was just a random Gypsy's prediction to her when she was a child. Who would have thought.
Watteau however paid tribute to the end of an era in this painting by putting ole XIV in a box. Talula likes endings...she likes change; she sits at the table in the sign shop....reading the signs, deciding what her next move is with her gypsy fate. Is Watteau giving her fame in this painting...or is she sitting around waiting for it.
Either way, per this artwork, we don't know the answer because Watteau dies young after sparking the age of extravagance for artists such as Boucher, Jean Marc Nattier and Jean-Baptiste Perronneau....and Theart. B. maybe.
With gold leaf and garnish on her bottom...
off she goes.
Later.
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