Word: delacroix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even more astonishing feat of showoffmanship is the 15 exhibited variations of Eugene Delacroix's famed Louvre painting, Women of Algiers, turned out by Picasso over a 15-month period. Noted a friend: "It was with a kind of malicious pleasure that he took up this venerable museum work, turned it over like an old coat, recut it and adjusted it to his own measurements." Painted in 1954-55, the exercise was also Picasso's way of working off the melancholy caused by the departure of his companion of eight years, Françoise Gilot...
...Delacroix, whose Amadis de Gaule hangs in the adjacent room in the Virginia Museum, made storm and strife the very center of his painting, and became the great painter of the 19th century Romantic movement. Choosing a scene from the popular 14th century Portuguese romance of chivalry, Delacroix depicted the Good Knight Amadis de Gaule (whose exploits took him from Britain to Constantinople) as he strides, plumes tossing, to greet the Princess Olga, after he and his companions have forced the castle of treacherous Galpen. Banners wave, steel clashes on steel, the air is loud with clamor, even...
...Delacroix painted to inflame the soul and intoxicate the eye, and to those who failed to read his message, he said: "In many people the eye is untrue or inert; they see the objects literally: of the exquisite they see nothing...
...because the ordinary police turned them over willingly. There was a professor of psychology, called as an expert, who testified that "hatred of the U.B. got out of bounds." Comes the Revolution. Keynoting the Polish civilian attitude to the riots, Defense Lawyer Stanislaw Hejmowski said he was reminded of Delacroix's famous painting - the one of the French Revolution showing a young woman on the barricades and by her side youths with pistol and rifle. "If the king's police had won the battle, the prosecutor of that time would have dragged these young people into court...
...made copies of Rembrandt's paintings, and so did Gainsborough and Turner. Goya's studio had ten Rembrandt prints, to which Goya freely admitted his debt: "I have had three masters: Velasquez, Rembrandt, and nature." As the pendulum swung from classicism to romanticism in the 19th century, Delacroix seized on Rembrandt to best his classicist rival, Ingres, and wrote: "Perhaps we shall one day find that Rembrandt is a greater painter than Raphael...