. Art in France. OO.— MEDEA. (Museum of Lille.) AKT IN FRANCE. 701. -\ II T(IK arc.(I. TlIK I(;-. (Xiftor Hugos House, Paris.) (Washed Drawing.) Revolutionary Kails, tu-multuous welters in whirhthe colour yells, and thedrawing is dislocated byfurious gestures; then theEast, that Morocco wherehe had travelled and seenfantasias of horsemen,where he had divined thedrowsy harems and theinnumerable wild beasts,the lions and tigers whichroar at us from his littlecanvases. The setting fora tragic landscape, a green and glassylurid twilight of storm and massacre. these convulsi
. Art in France. OO.— MEDEA. (Museum of Lille.) AKT IN FRANCE. 701. -\ II T(IK arc.(I. TlIK I(;-. (Xiftor Hugos House, Paris.) (Washed Drawing.) Revolutionary Kails, tu-multuous welters in whirhthe colour yells, and thedrawing is dislocated byfurious gestures; then theEast, that Morocco wherehe had travelled and seenfantasias of horsemen,where he had divined thedrowsy harems and theinnumerable wild beasts,the lions and tigers whichroar at us from his littlecanvases. The setting fora tragic landscape, a green and glassylurid twilight of storm and massacre. these convulsive bodies issea, a lowering sky, the Finally, when he undertook large decorative compositions, Delacroixwas able to express modern and living ideas, never borrowed fromthe conventional store-house of allegory, but so full of thought thatthey might have appeared irreconcilable with the genius of paint-ing. In the middle of the Galerie dApollon in the Louvre, on thatceiling dedicated by Le Brun to the glorification of the Sun King,he produced a sumptuous decoration, wort
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