Theodore Gericault: 101 Paintings and Drawings - Paperback

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Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9781506189543

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by Maria Tsaneva (Author)

Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was an influential French painter and lithographer, known for "The Raft of the Medusa" and other paintings. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic Movement. His stormy career lasted little more than a decade and in that time he displayed a meteoric and many-sided genius. His love of thrilling action, his sense of swirling movement, his energetic conduct of paint, and his taste for the horrid were all to become features of Romanticism. Géricault was, at the same time avant-garde in his realism: he made studies from corpses and severed limbs for The Raft of the Medusa and painted an extraordinary series of portraits of mental patients in the clinic of his friend Dr Georget. His work had enormous influence, most notably on Delacroix.

Number of Pages: 104

Dimensions: 0.25 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN

Publication Date: January 10, 2015

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