Eugène Delacroix
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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]]''. | 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]]''. | ||
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- | It is from Delacroix that the line of progressive modernism extends directly to Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet. In the conservative view, Delacroix's Romanticism, Courbet's Realism, and Manet's Naturalism were all manifestations of the [[cult of ugliness]] that opposed the Academic ideal of the beautiful. Delacroix, Courbet, and Manet, were each in turn accused by conservatives of carrying on subversive work that was intended to undermine the State. --Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe via http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/artartists/modernism.html [May 2006] | ||
== Maurice Barrés on Delacroix == | == Maurice Barrés on Delacroix == |
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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 Eugène Delacroix was the founder of modern art. "The majority of the public," wrote Charles Baudelaire "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"
An originator of modern art
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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