elaborately built gouaches
“Raft” Medusa “” Theodore Gericault
The artist Theodore Gericault, the founder of romanticism in France, became famous for a number of works, and especially the painting “The Jellyfish Raft”. She became no less well-known than Rembrandt’s Night Watch, The Oath of the Horatii of David, and Boyary Morozov of Surikov. The artist masterfully expressed in her deep thoughts about the fate of people, by force of circumstances set on the verge of death, could say weighty words about modernity. That is why the historian of the middle of the last century, Jules Michelet, recalling the picture, said the right words: “I said and repeat again: at that moment Gericault was France.” Continue reading
statue was created
easel paintings
years of reaction
makes several
aspiring artist
figures are graceful
monuments of the city’s
technique of oil painting
products painted
master worked
uniquely individual
inhuman tension.
picture telling
social activity gradually
direct observations
beautiful and majestic
henceforth become
most popular
painters from England
linear perspective
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remarkable monument
joyful beauty
variety of color
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huge cycle of murals
surpass in this respect
tense in mood
naming the artistic
ambassador to Greece
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studios were located
distinguished by its mannerism
constant companions
supposedly saved
most picturesque places
thus emphasizing
where every wave
creative response
could not recover
natural principle
outlines of buildings
especially outstanding