Word: delacroix
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...Western section is made up principally of paintings, examples of sculpture being confined to very small pieces. The most colorful pictures seem to be those done in the 19th century by such artists as David, Delacroix, and Manet. Only one contemporary work is shown, a picture of two horses by Chirico which almost seems to be a reversion to the primitive style of the East. Represented also are paintings and drawings by Albrecht Durer, Sassetta, Leonardi da Vinci, Rubens, and Goya. From the 19th and 20th centuries come Daumer, Stubbs, and Degas...
From this point on, the tradition becomes broader and the showing more ample. We can pursue it, in a second room, in several fine Ingres, in a Delacroix and a Gericault and a whole sheaf by Degas; we discover it, still potent, in four cartoons of pure line, by Picasso. Certainly in those two rooms we contemplate a wondrous diversity of the human spirit, conveyed by the mere line and surface of drawings...
...JOURNAL OF EUGENE DELACROIX SYPHILIS...
From this early section the Journal jumps to 1832, when Delacroix accompanied a French diplomatic mission to Morocco. His notes on the most vivid adventure of his life are clipped, wholly objective, brilliantly businesslike, set down only to help him remember details of what he saw. Some of them are like a modern Imagist poem or a sketch for a cinema continuity: "The entrance to the castle: The Guardsmen in the court, the faÇade, the lane between two walls. At the end, under a sort of vault, men seated, making a brown silhouette against...
...Delacroix was an established painter, a friend of Chopin, Baudelaire, George Sand, already engaged in the speculations and experiments with color and form which have made many critics consider him the father of all modern painting. Copious, passionate, acute, the entries are studded with keen sidelights on Paris society, on music, the theatre, politics and science as well...