. Art in France. ART IN FRANCE. 705. Ill (AMIS. COMING OUTOF A TURKISH SCHOOL. (Musee dcs Arts decoratifs, Paris.) . ing is swift and sure as aflash of lightning. Ex-amine one of his littleArab fantasias; the horsesbound like sheep dogsamong the fluttering bur-nooses; everything crack-les, sparkles, caracolesand plunges; the formagrees with the gesture,limbs are twisted orstretched out; the wildbeasts that he painted withsuch delight, lions andtigers rushing upon theirprey or batding with huntsmen and horses, are like forces let attempted a paradox when he tried to ma
. Art in France. ART IN FRANCE. 705. Ill (AMIS. COMING OUTOF A TURKISH SCHOOL. (Musee dcs Arts decoratifs, Paris.) . ing is swift and sure as aflash of lightning. Ex-amine one of his littleArab fantasias; the horsesbound like sheep dogsamong the fluttering bur-nooses; everything crack-les, sparkles, caracolesand plunges; the formagrees with the gesture,limbs are twisted orstretched out; the wildbeasts that he painted withsuch delight, lions andtigers rushing upon theirprey or batding with huntsmen and horses, are like forces let attempted a paradox when he tried to make paintinglyrical like poetry and music; painting and sculpture are dedicatedto the representation of the external world. Our own visual ex-perience forces us at every moment to correct the painters fancy,and instinctively, we feel it to be intolerable that reality, which iscommon property, should be treated according to the caprice of afevered dreamer. Delacroixs art, with its partial failure, revealsthe mind of a poet of gen
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