„Art for Art’s sake means, for its adepts: the pursuit of pure beauty without any other preoccupation. That is-the slenderest kind of an idea, or no idea at all; no purpose, as Lessing suggests, of any kind; no sentiment or thought-simply beauty of composition and of craftsmanship. Well, in Watteau’s picture we have this mediocre aim realised most cleverly.“ (1) If we look at the painting in question it sure seems that way but in my opinion Arbiter underestimates Watteau’s masterpiece. Let us have a look on Watteau’s recognition piece for the academy from 1717. The first version of the „Embarkation to Cythera“ was created in 1710 which is now in…