Eugène Delacroix
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| - | In 1832, Delacroix traveled to Spain and North Africa, as part of a diplomatic mission to [[Morocco]] shortly after the French conquered [[French rule in Algeria|Algeria]]. He went not primarily to study art, but to escape from the civilization of Paris, in hopes of seeing a more primitive culture.<ref name="wellington_xv" /> He eventually produced over 100 paintings and drawings of scenes from or based on the life of the people of North Africa, and added a new and personal chapter to the interest in [[Orientalism]].<ref>Jobert, page 140.</ref> Delacroix was entranced by the people and the costumes, and the trip would inform the subject matter of a great many of his future paintings. He believed that the North Africans, in their attire and their attitudes, provided a visual equivalent to the people of Classical [[Rome]] and [[Greece]]: | ||
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| - | <blockquote>"The Greeks and Romans are here at my door, in the Arabs who wrap themselves in a white blanket and look like Cato or Brutus…"<ref name="wellington_xv" /></blockquote> | ||
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| - | He managed to sketch some women secretly in [[Algiers]], as in the painting ''[[Women of Algiers in their Apartment]]'' (1834), but generally he encountered difficulty in finding Moslem women to pose for him because of Muslim rules requiring that women be covered. Less problematical was the painting of [[Jewish]] women in North Africa, as subjects for the ''Jewish Wedding in Morocco'' (1837-41). | ||
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| - | While in [[Tangier]], he made many sketches of the people and the city, subjects to which he would return until the end of his life.<ref>Wellington, page xvi.</ref> Animals—the embodiment of romantic passion—were incorporated into paintings such as ''Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable'' (1860), ''The Lion Hunt'' (of which there exists many versions, painted between 1856 and 1861), and ''Arab Saddling his Horse'' (1855). | ||
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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (April 26, 1798 – August 13, 1863) was a French Romantic painter. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, and the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He was a member of the Club des Hashischins and is best remembered for his 1827 painting The Death of Sardanapalus. To 19th century Parisians Delacroix was the founder of modern art. "The majority of the public," wrote Charles Baudelaire in his 1846 review of the salon (published posthumously in Curiosités esthétiques) "have long since, indeed from his very first work, dubbed him leader of the modern school."
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Baudelaire on Delacroix
Baudelaire worshipped Delacroix as a dark god and wrote in Les Phares: "Delacroix, lake of blood, haunted by evil angels"
Baudelaire considered Delacroix as the originator of modern art and he wrote in his review of the Paris Salon of 1846: "The majority of the public have long since, indeed from his very first work, dubbed him leader of the modern school." --Charles Baudelaire in Curiosités esthétiques.
Maurice Barrés on Delacroix
Not without reason was Delacroix the object of a veritable cult on the part of Maurice Barrès. "Du sang, de la volupté, de la mort" might well be the motto of his work." --The Romantic Agony
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