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“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
inhuman tension.
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joyful beauty
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hands he held
studios were located
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linear perspective
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years of reaction
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technique of oil painting
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social activity gradually
outlines of buildings
masters saw in reality
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aspiring artist
naming the artistic
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distinguished by its mannerism
natural principle
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easel paintings
supposedly saved
ambassador to Greece