Word: delacroix
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...Matisse's pictorial motives differed from those of all European artists who had visited "the Orient" before. French painters from the 1830s on, starting with Eugene Delacroix, had gone there in search of the picturesque, the exotic, the ready-made subject: mosques and Riffian horsemen, camels and harem slaves. By 1880 Orientalism had become a large fashion among salon painters and their clients. French artists brought their minutely realist style and their mildly prurient interests to Fez and Marrakech, and went back to Paris with both intact. To be influenced as a painter by Islamic art -- architecture, rugs, tiles, cloth...
...Claude Monet, the quintessential impressionist painter, was born in 1840. That year Queen Victoria married Prince Albert, and in France both Ingres and Delacroix were at work. In 1926, when Monet died, Lenin was two years dead, and Picasso was already a middle-aged man of 45. Having lived such a span, Monet in old age looked like a relic of the 19th century -- hardly a modern artist at all. What could his painting offer a postcubist culture...
TREASURES FROM THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Highlights of the collection built up by British connoisseurs over two centuries at Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam, including paintings by Titian, Rubens and Delacroix, manuscripts, ceramics, sculpture and decorative arts. Through June...
TREASURES FROM THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Highlights of the collection built up by British connoisseurs over two centuries at Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam, including paintings by Titian, Rubens and Delacroix, manuscripts, ceramics, sculpture and decorative arts. Through June...
...cannot fail to associate this with Degas's own working methods, the sense of filiation and descent that would breathe through his work for the rest of his life, the past feeding into the present and then out into the future. Degas, the synthesizer of Ingres and Delacroix, would point -- through the wild color fields and direct manual touch of his later years -- to a modernism that was not yet born...