It’s funny - for the longest time, I’d fall asleep before the ending of Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.
Can’t be a coincidence.
Can’t be a coincidence.
I did want to read the book because of this movie and I do have it on audiobook.
Quite right, De La Tour preceded the periods you disdain. I’m glad we share a liking for his work.
But as for the Academy, David literally personified it during the Revolution, but Delacroix and Gericault were balls-to-the-wall Romantics whose torrid paint inspired anti-Academy dudes like Courbet and later, Manet. It’s hard to lump these guys together.
Raft of the Medusa was a shocker to the neo-Classisist Academy fans for its dramatic realism and lack of polish.
But as for the Academy, David literally personified it during the Revolution, but Delacroix and Gericault were balls-to-the-wall Romantics whose torrid paint inspired anti-Academy dudes like Courbet and later, Manet. It’s hard to lump these guys together.
Raft of the Medusa was a shocker to the neo-Classisist Academy fans for its dramatic realism and lack of polish.
If you’re ever on the fence about killing yourself, try reading Conrad. That will get you over the line.