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Considered the leader of the French Romantic school of painting, Eugene Delacroix was a prolific artist, producing over 9,000 works during his lifetime, ranging from paintings, to watercolors,...
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Alec Hodgson
10 months ago
I love his idea of what romantic painting should be about. He viewed nature as a dictionary in which painters could find the right colour or the right form, but just as writers don't aspire to copy the dictionary, painters should not aspire to copy nature. Instead,the work an artist produces is first and foremost a product of his imagination.
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