Eugène Delacroix, Self-Portrait with Green Vest, c. 1837, oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre), Michel Urtado)
Joe Lloyd reviews Eugène Delacroix at The Louvre on view through July 23, 2018.
Lloyd observes that "the importance Delacroix placed on colour as a vehicle for meaning runs through the Fauvists, Matisse and Picasso and abstract expressionism, right through to much present-day art. To this is joined Delacroix’s painterliness. Even the most harmoniously composed of his paintings reveal themselves, at close quarters, to be riots of different strokes and textures."
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