Word: delacroix
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...narrower near the waistline and get progressively wider until the hem. Well, not any more. The fashion experts have something in evening gowns that they call the balloon look, or the harem style. The latter name is particularly appropriate; one of these creations would feel right at home with Delacroix's "Algerian Women...
...Bought after the boom in 19th century French impressionists was well under way, the paintings in the Niarchos show will include no less than four each by Cézanne, Gauguin and Degas, six Rouaults, nine Renoirs, seven Van Goghs, plus outstanding works by Matisse, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Goya, Delacroix, Corot and El Greco (see color pages). The show represents the utmost in mid-20th century moneyed taste...
...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...