Synopses & Reviews
Eugandegrave;ne Delacroix (1789andndash;1863), a dominant figure in 19th-century French art, was a complex and contradictory painter whose legacy is deep and enduring. This important, beautifully illustrated book considers Delacroix in his own time, alongside contemporaries such as Courbet, Fromentin, and the poet Charles Baudelaire, as well as his significant influence on successive generations of artists.
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Delacroixandrsquo;s paintings and his posthumously published Journals laid crucial groundwork for immediate successors including Candeacute;zanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, and Renoir. Later admirers including Seurat, Gauguin, Moreau, Redon, Van Gogh, and Matisse renewed the obsession with his work. Through essays and catalogue entries, the authors demonstrate how Delacroix became mentor and archetype to younger generations who sought direction for their own creative experiments, and found inspiration in Delacroixandrsquo;s brilliant use of color, audacious technique, and rebellious nature.
Synopsis
By the time of Richard Parkes Bonington's tragic death from tuberculosis in 1828, the 25-year-old artist, who was born in England and moved to France as a teenager, was already a seminal figure in the development of modernism in 19th-century French painting. This catalogue raisonnand#233; of his drawings serves as a companion to Patrick Noon's Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings and represents the next stage in his objective to present the artist's complete known oeuvre. Drawing on more than 25 years of research, Noon catalogues, analyzes, and reproduces more than 400 drawings now indisputably attributed to Bonington. This is the first time many of these exquisite works are appearing in print, among them drawings composed during an 1826 trip through Switzerland and northern Italy.
Synopsis
This handsome volume explores Delacroixandrsquo;s works, his artistic contemporaries, and the generations of great artists he inspired.
About the Author
Patrick Noon is Elizabeth MacMillan Chair of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.and#160;Christopher Riopelle is curator of post-1800 paintings at the National Gallery, London