Word: delacroix
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...France -- became head curator of Orsay as well. "I had to wear two hats," Laclotte recalls, "and sometimes it gave me a headache." For the Louvre is by nature a monopoly, with the gravitational pull of a black hole. So many of the canonical masterpieces of the 19th century -- Delacroix's Massacre at Chios and his Death of Sardanapalus, Courbet's The Studio and Funeral at Ornans and so on, ad infinitum -- are in the Louvre that Laclotte was faced with appalling difficulties in getting anything to cross the Seine to Orsay. Moreover, since he was only on loan...
...museum's staff wanted to start in 1863 -- the emblematic year that saw the first Salon des Refuses, Manet's epochal Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and the formal rupture of the avant-garde from the academy. Giscard demurred. He wanted Orsay to begin in 1830, with Delacroix's Liberty Guiding the People -- which the Louvre flatly refused to release. Back to the drawing board. But then, in 1981 a new Socialist government headed by Francois Mitterrand came in, and Mitterrand let it be known that the 19th century must begin in 1848, the year of populist revolutions...
...Four PAINTINGS of Harvard by French artist Michel Delacroix for $1650.00 at Newbury Fine Arts...
...portrayed the Reagan of 1980 as something of a good-natured, perhaps not altogether innocuous former actor, the early TV in 1984 has made him seem nothing less than Liberty Leading the People. Yes, television duly noted, Reagan answered questions about as often as the heroine in Delacroix's painting. But such observations usually surfaced well into the evening broadcasts, and always after a somewhat breathless account of how the Reagan juggernaut continued to roll on, propelled by the president's charm and grace. As Mike Royko, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, wrote in July; to win reelection...
...Japanese art as art pri-mitif.) When he did quote Tahitian art, Gauguin played fast and loose with it, basing (in There Is the Marae, 1892) a Tahitian fence on the design of a tiny Marquesan earplug. In his Tahiti, primitivism was cousin to Baudelaire's paganism and Delacroix's orientalism-a celebration of what Gauguin called "uncertain luxe barbare d'autre-fois" (a certain barbaric luxury of older times). It rested on sensuality and nostalgia. It was Paradise Depraved...