Eugène Delacroix | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 15 pages of analysis & critique of Eugène Delacroix.

Eugène Delacroix | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 15 pages of analysis & critique of Eugène Delacroix.
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SOURCE: Guentner, Wendelin. “The Inscription of the Sketch in the 19th-Century French Journal: Michelet, Delacroix and the Goncourt Brothers.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 27, nos. 3 & 4 (spring/summer 1999): 276-289.

In the following excerpt, Wendelin discusses Delacroix's conception of the artistic sketch as part of a larger argument regarding the definition of art in the nineteenth century.

In one of his many reflections on art and aesthetics Paul Valéry wrote the following in 1934:

Achever un ouvrage consiste à faire disparaître tout ce qui montre ou suggère sa fabrication. L'artiste ne doit, selon cette tradition surannée, s'accuser que par son style, et doit soutenir son effort jusqu'à ce que le travail ait effacé les traces du travail. Mais le souci de la personne et de l'instant l'emportant peu à peu sur celui de l'œuvre en soi et de la durée, la condition d'achèvement a paru, non seulement...

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This section contains 3,837 words
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