Word: delacroix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Driven Man. Last month the huge bequest of some 130 pictures went on public view for the first time in a new underground gallery excavated below the museum garden. There were paintings by Monet's masters, Delacroix and Boudin, and by his fellow Impressionists -including a magnificent portrait of Monet himself at age 32 by his friend Auguste Renoir. But the bulk of the gift is Monet's Monets-a unique and stunningly complete core sample of 65 oils and four pastels spanning his growth as an artist from 1870 to the series of lily ponds which, over...
...student's understanding is not greatly deepened because he can distinguish the style of Delacroix from that of Gericault, though his eyesight may improve. Learning to write expository criticism is not as important as learning to look. Criticism can only distinguish between styles, disciplines and forms, and consequently deals only with the tools of perception. Tools are a means...
...Down!), he knows as much about the shops and ships, the rigs and ragamuffins as a sharp eye and a keen mind can acquire. The result encourages young (and old) to brood upon details and be delighted by the beauty of black ink and watercolor washes that blend a Delacroix-like delicacy with the liveliness of Thomas Rowlandson. Erie Canal follows a barge through Clinton's Ditch (circa 1850), seen in four seasons and drawn down to the last mule harness and quayside bollard...
Historically, this phase of German art has had a raw deal. To think of 19th century painting is automatically to think French. A grand panorama rises in the mind's eyeDavid to Delacroix, Courbet to Manet and the Impressionists. But though the German Romantic painters did not rival the achievements of the French, Yale's show does remind viewers that "mainstreams" are not the only art worth enjoying...
...response to a personal sense of crisis. The trouble is that painting has become a clumsy way of reporting a society as turbulent and racked as this. Its clashes cannot be accounted for in single, painted images-as Goya could report the Madrid insurrection in Third of May, or Delacroix symbolize the 1830 revolution with Liberty Leading the People over the barricades of a Paris street. The task has been assumed, and done better, by film makers. In three minutes of film, the flat dispassionate eye of the movie camera can disclose more about the kind of reality that appalls...