Word: delacroix
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...photographers. At the Musée d'Orsay, Manet/Velázquez, The Spanish Manner in the 19th Century documents the influence of the great 17th and 18th century Spanish painters - Velázquez, Mur?llo, Zurbarán, Ribéra, Goya - on such 19th century French artists as Manet, Delacroix, Chassériau and Courbet. What the French learned from their Spanish predecessors was a gritty realism previously unknown in France's academic art world - ordinary subjects like beggars and street urchins, freely painted, with color used to sculpt volume and the daring use of black. One caveat: the curators...
...that was seen at the Prado in Madrid last winter--one realizes what depth and intensity Goya brought to seeing his world. The late 18th and early 19th century in Europe had portraitists who could extract gripping narratives of sympathy and experience from the individual human face and body. Delacroix, Ingres, David--it is a long and glorious list. But the most fascinating of them is surely Goya, which is all the more remarkable because he was so much alone, a man without colleagues or rivals in his culture. (He left Spain only twice--first when he was too young...
...exhibit's collection of van Gogh's studies for his first masterpiece, 'The Potato Eaters' (1885), the final version of which is not included in the show. Van Gogh was upset with the reception of this painting, moved briefly to Antwerp, where his brother Theo introduced him to Delacroix's color theory, and then landed in Paris...