Word: delacroix
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...vitamins. Besides the Manet, rated as fine as the Dejeuner sur I'Herbe in the Louvre, Collector Dale's loan contained an assort ment of top-flight Renoirs, Degas and Corots, two Courbets, a superb Fantin-Latour, and important works by such 19th-Century painters as Eugene Delacroix and Jacques-Louis David. That Chester Dale's "loan" might be a permanent one was excitedly conceded last week in museum circles...
...painter of Corot-like landscapes, was also a magistrate and enough of an Anglophile to name his son Arturo, after King Arthur of the Round Table. Taught painting by his father, at 21 he went to Paris, where he studied, haunted the galleries, became a fervent admirer of Delacroix and Rouault. He decided that the modernistic Ecole de Paris was not for him. Said he: "A painting, for me, must be based on human emotion. It is a deep experience. In the School of Paris there is much talent, but the work is of the mind purely. Picasso...
...Franciscans, strolling through roomfuls of top-flight Delacroix, Corots, Daumiers, Gauguins, Cezannes, van Goghs, Matisses, Braques, Tanguys, recognized many famed pictures (Ingres' Turkish Bath, Millet's Shepherdess Tending her Flock, Gérard's Madame Recamier, Delacroix's Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi}. Meanwhile gallery directors all over the U. S. tumbled over themselves to negotiate with Director Heil for a loan of his big French show after San Francisco is through with...
Most patriotic of early U. S. composers was an Englishman. In 1792 James Hewitt settled in Manhattan, where he conducted concerts for the peruked and crinolined promenaders at Delacroix's Vaux Hall Gardens. So fervent became Britisher Hewitt's Americanism that he deplored the British alehouse origin of The Star-Spangled Banner,* wrote himself a brand-new musical setting for Francis Scott Key's words...
...subject matter is dull, and his rendition is poor. Nevertheless, he is interesting. For he is an outstanding example of an artist who didn't know where he was. His style seems to be an odd mixture of the worst elements of Romanticism that can be found in both Delacroix and Gericault, together with a few traces of Matisse, coupled with the photographic accuracy that characterizes any good magazine illustrator. And it is lamentable that a few of his paintings are good. I say lamentable because those pieces which do show real talent only serve to accentuate the weak sort...