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So much more than I was expecting. Delacroix is a fine writer as well as an artist, reflecting on mores, music and art styles of the mid 19th century. I couldn't put it down, finding myself scanning ahead for a series of mini-essays on how to paint scattered liberally through its many pages. I read it beginning to end, but browsing through randomly works here. A lot of insight in one volume.
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... and he jumps into "fifty shades of grey" within the first few pages of his diary -- noting that his new girlfriend's "breast is fluttering."
This is really quite a sensational little diary; it is incredible it was not lost, that it was saved.
I used to think Monet was the most important Impressionist; I wonder if it was not Delacroix.
As far as the "thin pages, tiny font," this makes the book particularly unique and a huge plus. I almost feel like I am holding a "holy book" while reading it. I have no problem reading it; the reader who mentioned that the type showed through must have been reading under a very strong light and very much uninterested in Delacroix.
Delacroix was as much a writer as a painter -- anyone interested in the Romanticism period should take take a look at this book. It also explains why Delacroix is noted for his "Arab" paintings.
Easily 5 stars.
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33 of 40 people found the following review helpful
In order to get something worthwhile out of reading Delacroix's Journals, the reader should know something about Delacroix other than that he was a 19th century painter of the first rank. Ingres found Delacroix's work execrable and cast aspersion upon him by saying that: Delacroix was an apostle of ugliness who had come to 'end' painting as the French and the Europeans in general knew it. Today, Delacroix's work occupies a huge chunk of the Louvre's halls -- outstripping Ingre's portion. The fact that Delacroix in fact did fulfill Ingres' curse/prophecy may say something about the nature of death/life and rebirth/resurrection in art. I read this wonderful book over ten years ago and so powerful was the impact of Delacroix's insights into the nature, perception, creational origin, and fate of art that much of it still remain with me. Delacroix in his day was not revered as he is today. He did not have people knocking down his doors to see his work, nor did he always have it easy trying to show it publicly. One day, after a bad review, to console himself, he wrote that (I paraphase) a great work of art in history is like a plank of wood held under water -- it is kept down when the powers-that-be hold it down. But that power ('political agenda' in contempo art-babble) does not last forever and must sooner or later let go of the plank whose nature is to float to the surface for all the world to see. He seem to have had the same intuition about the nature and fuction of art as the Greeks did: that art is light, that which shines of its own, and by which power that which 'sheds lights' and 'explains' what is around it rather than something that needs to be explained. He never married but was looked after by a doting housekeeper.Read more ›
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I remember learning about Delacroix in school and I thought he was terrific, I really loved his paintings, his sketches. I have loads of books that have paintings that Delacroix had done and now having this Journal to add to the collection makes it sort of almost complete. This is going to be terrific reading him day by day, to understand how this legends mind worked.
To truly understand a person, you have to get into someones mind, you have to learn to read them and you have got to listen deep within yor soul and this is what I'm hoping to do with his journal, becaz even though I do know quite abit about Delacroix, there's still quite a lot I hav got to master so I'm so thankful I found a copy of his Journal.
ok, he was described as a disturbed artist, but I thought he was an inspiration to us all and was a true legend.
The journal first appeared before the public in 1893 and this is fab learning once again all about one of the greatest, if not the best artist in the world.
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This little book gives a great insight into the life and views of Eugene Delacroix. It is interesting to read about locations that I've visited in Paris as Delacroix reflects on the Paris of the 1800's. His views on the artists, musicians and writers of his day are most fascinating.
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