Word: delacroix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FRANCE'S famed Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) once told an art student: "If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth story to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works." Delacroix's aim, as his friend French Poet Charles Baudelaire put it more precisely, was "to execute quickly enough and with sufficient sureness so as not to allow any element in the intensity of an act or idea to be lost." To this end Delacroix worked continually...
Settling & Overflowing. But in old age Picasso is developing a new and airier touch. As charming as anything in the Louvre's show were 14 recent variations on The Women of Algiers, a famous harem picture by Delacroix. The variations, painted in a brief, 64-day period last winter, flung open the shutters of Delacroix's exotic little dream world. Some of the "variations" verged on parodies, both of Delacroix and of Matisse. (Said Picasso to a friend after Matisse died: "I will try to continue his work.") More intriguing to curiosity seekers was another recent work. Picasso...
...France of the same period, great painters turned easily to problems of illustration. Eugène Delacroix, a Romantic from his flowing locks to his patent leather pumps, found a congenial subject in Hamlet. Honoré Daumier brought his genius for social satire to a masterpiece in the same genre: Don Quixote. And Edouard Manet made a lithograph after Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven that would have delighted would-be-Parisian Poe's anxious heart...
ANDRÉ MINAUX, 31, whose work represents one significant trend in French painting: the return to realism and 19th century masters like Courbet and Delacroix. The lessons of cubism and fauve color, thinks Minaux, have by now become the unconscious inheritance automatically guiding and correcting the artist's eye and intelligence, thus leaving painters free to turn to traditional subjects, such as Minaux's French peasants harvesting...
European "Art of the Romantic Period," from 1750 to 1850, promises to satisfy artists, romantics, and Modern European history concentrators looking for an interesting related course, Assistant Professor James W. Fowle, of Fine Arts 13 fame, is the lecturer, Delacroix, Millet, and other French painters the subject. Fine Arts 174 meets in Fogg Small Lecture Room...