Word: delacroix
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...artists who decorated the ceilings in Paris' famed Palais du Louvre, the two best remembered are the 19th century masters Ingres and Delacroix. Last week news leaked out that a third big name is about to be added. France's spry old (70) Georges Braque, currently breaking new ground with a show of his latest (and surprisingly airy) paintings in Manhattan, has recently been asked to design a large ceiling for the Louvre's ornate Salle Henri...
Nearly all of Robinson's choices are products of the Paris-bred revolution which began with Delacroix and survives today in Matisse. It overthrew the power of tobacco-juice brown and gradually raised pure color to the position of first importance in Western art. At the center of that revolution stands the creator of one of Collector Robinson's prize acquisitions: the one-eared, fox-bearded Dutchman who painted the portrait opposite, and whose 100th birthday will be celebrated this month...
...survived this period," he says. "I sold them all to buy food and drink." Nights, he went to the galleries, and there he found what he wanted to do. He liked such old French masters as the 17th century's Nicolas Poussin, the 19th century's Eugene Delacroix, such moderns as Switzerland's Alberto Giacometti (TIME, July 2, 1951) and Britain's Francis Bacon. The much-admired decorative style of the Matisses is not for Paddy Swift. "Art," he thinks, "is obviously capable of expressing something more closely related to life than these elegant designs...
...Paris' central market] dressed in a tuxedo and with a terrific hangover, and tried to sell father's bananas. Naturally he fired me, and gave me an allowance to copy the old masters in the Louvre. I found it perfectly easy to copy Leonardo, El Greco and Delacroix, but Goya was too difficult for me on account of his half-tones. After one year in the Louvre I decided to stay in my room and do my copying from reproductions. Father never knew the difference...
...show was a tumultuous Wild Animal Hunt by Bernard Lorjou, who, at 40, is considered a promising "young" painter in France and has never exhibited in the U.S. To some mid-20th Century eyes, Lorjou's Hunt might look like a wild burlesque of one by Delacroix. But in the mid-19th Century, Delacroix' own hunt pictures had seemed like parodies of Rubens'. Lorjou's muscular distortions and crackling, fiery colors were more emotional than artful, yet there was art in them as well...