Getting hooked: In traditional rug making, memory and material intertwine May 20, 2008
Eugene Delacroix, the 19th-century French painter, was known to play with bits of thread when planning the color for his battle scenes, I was soon playing with strips of wool that I kept in a plastic bag, placing one against another as I strategized the color structure of my rug. I found that the introduction of each new color that I pulled through the burlap offered the chance to make an artistic decision. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Critic's Log: 20 turning points in art Dec 13, 2007
12: Liberty on the Barricades by Eugene Delacroix, although you could also use Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi, as the symbolic use of politics and the rise of the democratic spirit in the world. 13: Joseph Mallord William Turner's The Slave Ship as another political comment, but more important as the first glimmerings of a kind of Impressionism in paint, and the turning point where what we now call Modernism has not its birth, but at least its conception. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Feathers, sequins and the noble white man Oct 19, 2007
ance, calling on the spirit of French Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix as well as the ghosts of explorer-artists Paul Kane and George Catlin, both of whom made pictures of aboriginal life in the West for the delectation of their white audiences back home. Monkman, who is also known for his paintings and watercolours, is of blended ancestry (part Cree, part British and Irish), a delicately built man with handsome aquiline features, lively eyes and fluidly expressive hands that stir the air... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Fans to pay respects at Paris funeral to French mime Marcel Marceau Sep 26, 2007
The ceremony for Marceau, who died Saturday at the age of 84, was to take place at the eastern Paris cemetery, where a host of other famous performers and artists are buried, including composer Frederic Chopin, writer Oscar Wilde, painter Eugene Delacroix and rocker Jim Morrison. News reports said silence would be a theme of the ceremony and that a cellist would play as well, but further plans were not released ahead of time. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Eyeballs Float, Spiders Laugh; Odilon Redon Exhibit at Frankfurt's Schirn Feb 3, 2007
The nightmarish images of these earlier works, known as his ``noirs,'' have more in common with forerunners like Eugene Delacroix or with writers such as Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe. It's also easy to see how Redon is an intermediary between Francisco de Goya and the surrealists. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Male models waving knives doesn't work in Britain Jan 12, 2007
The ads showed male models waving knives while surrounded by female models in poses inspired by the paintings of French romantic artist Eugene Delacroix. One man was shown lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head. (Xinhua)
Dolce & Gabbana slammed over knife ad Jan 11, 2007
The Advertising Standards Authority said the company acted irresponsibly and breached standards of good taste in publishing the ads, which showed male models waving knives while surrounded by glamorous women models, in poses inspired by the paintings of French romantic artist Eugene Delacroix. One man was shown lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head. (MSNBC -- Business)
Watchdog Guns For Bloody D&G Ads Jan 10, 2007
They showed models in poses inspired by the paintings of French romantic artist Eugene Delacroix. But many were concerned the ads glorified knife and gun crime. (Sky News)
Walking with 'The da Vinci Code' May 14, 2006
This church, the largest in Paris next to Notre Dame, houses the last frescoes of Eugene Delacroix, and also has a visible brass line in the marble floor of the sanctuary ---- again, referred to in the novel as the Rose line, or meridian line. On the summer solstice, light falls on the plaque at the beginning of the line inside the church, where it angles across the floor to the Egyptian obelisk to the left of the altar and moves up 33 feet. (North County Times)
Brady to speak at youth benefit Apr 19, 2006
" . . . New York Senator Charles Schumer had dinner with his family at Anthony's Pier 4 Sunday night. . . . ''Two Horses Fighting in a Stormy Landscape," an oil painting by Eugene Delacroix that was never presented publicly -- even during the French Romantic artist's lifetime-- has been acquired by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in the Berkshires. It will be unveiled in a special exhibition, ''Delacroix and the Horse," in June, according to an institute press release. The painting... (Boston Globe)
The true colors of conflict Apr 17, 2006
King not only offers insightful biographies of his two primary characters, he also creates memorable profiles of Manet's fellow rebel painters -- Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, James Whistler, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot (the last being the best-known among the few female painters of the time) -- as well as such literary radicals as poet Charles Baudelaire, writer Emile Zola and influential critic Theophile Gautier. King's succinct... (Orlando Sentinel)
