Mildly NSFW “The grandeur of the Old Masters,” as Delacroix - TopicsExpress



          

Mildly NSFW “The grandeur of the Old Masters,” as Delacroix put it, “does not consist in the absence of faults.” Delacroix’s point was already polemical, but it was Manet who put that polemic into pictorial form. Seduced and empowered by photography, academic finish threatened to banish human clumsiness, seemingly forever. Manet’s response was not kneejerk intransigence—which might have meant adopting a uniformly sketchy romantic manner. Instead, by toggling toward and away from photography, he made his own waywardness look unmistakably deliberate, and new.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:40:44 +0000

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