Word: delacroix
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...When I was a child," said Eugene Delacroix, "I was a Monster." In time the monster grew a mustache and became famous for his wit, his dandyism and his fierce, flamboyant art, which now fills one-third of the Louvre's 19th Century tier of honor. But Delacroix's leaping, flesh-tearing lions, burning cities, shipwrecks and hard-riding Moors suggest that, being a true child of his age, he never quite outgrew his childhood. According to one of the painter's closest friends, Poet Charles Baudelaire (who also gave life quite a Peter Panning), savagery...
...muffler and hat. He seldom sees his fellow painters. Asked what the twelve call themselves, he explained that movements don't give themselves names: like Quakers, they get names pinned on them by their detractors. He-if no one else-liked, a name he had found in reading Delacroix's Journal: "Surnaturalists...
...Tolnay's text is rich with quotations, such as that attributed to Delacroix: "If you are not accomplished enough to make a sketch of a man in midair, falling out of a window, in the time it takes him to travel from the fourth floor to the ground, you will never be able to do great work." But few matters in the text are more impressive than de Tolnay's own paragraphs, packed with sound information, flecked with illumination, and free from crotchets. Characteristic is his discussion of Pisanello's place in history...
...guided by Blake's mysticism, by Goya's cynicism and savagery, by Delacroix's romanticism, by Daumier's humanity and tenderness; or better still follow your own inevitable star...
...worked his way through Manhattan's Art Students League and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts taking jobs as a dishwasher, cook and soda jerker, kept on painting in his own way, modeled his methods not on the French Impressionists or the U.S. Realists, but upon Delacroix and Tintoretto...