Word: delacroix
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...Turner in England, Delacroix in France, reacted against the orthodox tradition. They were dimly aware of the uses of color, and, though they probably would not recognize their spiritual descendants, they fathered the long line of impressionists, neo-impressionists, pointillists, postimpressionists, cubists, orphists, synchromists and what not, whom the 19th and 20th Centuries spawned. Modernist art is not yet aware of itself. The academic painters are in it only an insolent and half-baked challenge in their own medium. The modernists think they are destined to supplant the older school entirely. Neither is right, and when a true understanding...
Herr Breitscheidt then suggested that Germany adopt the plan for payment of reparations put forward by M. Louis Barthou on behalf of France and M. Delacroix on behalf of Belgium, by which 35,000,000,000 gold marks were demanded. " What we object to in the plan," said he, " is the stipulation for the progressive evacuation of the Ruhr and its failure to reimburse Germany for the costs of maintaining the armies of occupation...
...instead of, like their elders, looking at the outside world to realize themselves. Because oftentimes they are unable to distinguish much of anything within themselves, you know what happens (They get themselves called crazy). That is Picasso's crime. But Michael Angelo shares his guilt, and Rembrandt, and Delacroix, and Cezanne...
...cuts made from illustrations in printed books; XVth Century Florentine engravings; The Judgement of Paris, one of the early and very rare prints by Marcantonio; a beautiful impression of Mantegna's Seated Virgin; two large engravings by the North Italian, Mocetto; and prints by Ingres, Fragonard, Manet, Daumier and Delacroix...
...French prints covering the period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. There are examples of engraving by Duvet; etchings by Callot, Claude Lorrain, Gaspar Poussin; engraved portraits of the seventeenth century by Mellan, Nanteuil, Edelinck, Masson, Morin, etchings by Watteau, Millet, Lalanne, Corot, Lepere; and lithographs by Daumier, Delacroix, Isabey, and Gavarni...