What Was Delacroix Doing? Aside From Breaking Art History in Half.
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Now, at the Met, comes the first large-scale North American retrospective of his epoch-altering work. Howdidit alter his epoch? Delacroixs style is so uncontained, convulsive, and atmospheric its hard to pigeonhole as simply Romanticism. What do you see when you look at a Delacroix? Fuzziness, smears, fibrillating paint, irradiated color that destabilize space and emulsify objects....