Frasi di Eugéne Delacroix
Eugéne Delacroix
Data di nascita: 26. Aprile 1798
Data di morte: 13. Agosto 1863
Altri nomi:Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix,Фердинан Виктор Эжен Делакруа
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, più semplicemente noto come Eugène Delacroix , fu un artista e pittore francese, considerato fin dall'inizio della sua carriera il principale esponente del movimento romantico del suo paese.
La suggestiva pennellata tipica di Delacroix e il suo studio sugli effetti ottici ottenibili per mezzo del colore influenzarono profondamente l'opera degli impressionisti, mentre la sua passione per i temi esotici fu fonte di ispirazione per gli artisti del movimento simbolista. Abile litografo, Delacroix realizzò illustrazioni per diverse opere di Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott e Goethe.
Contrariamente al suo principale rivale Ingres, che ricercava nelle proprie opere il perfezionismo tipico dello stile neoclassico, Delacroix prese spunto dall'arte di Rubens e dei pittori del Rinascimento veneziano, ponendo maggiore enfasi sul colore e sul movimento piuttosto che sulla nitidezza dei profili e sulla perfezione delle forme. Le opere della sua maturità furono caratterizzate dalle tematiche romantiche, che lo spinsero a viaggiare in Nordafrica in cerca di esotismo, invece di avvicinarsi ai modelli classici greci e romani.
Amico ed erede spirituale di Théodore Géricault, Delacroix fu ispirato anche da Byron, con cui condivise la forte fascinazione per le "sublimi forze" della natura e le loro manifestazioni spesso violente.
Delacroix tuttavia non cadde mai nel sentimentalismo né nell'ampollosità, e il suo modello di romanticismo fu quello di un individualista. Citando le parole di Baudelaire, "Delacroix amò appassionatamente la passione, ma fu freddamente determinato ad esprimere la passione stessa nel modo più chiaro possibile."
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Frasi Eugéne Delacroix
„I am thinking of painting for the coming Salon a picture [probably the large and unfinished painting 'Botzaris' by Delacroix] whose subject I shall take from the recent wars between the Turks and the Greeks. I think that.... this would be a way to attract some attention. I should therefore like you to send me some drawings of the country round Naples, a few quick sketches of seascapes or picturesque mountain sites... Why not also send a few of the studies you have in your portfolio? You don’t need them while you are out there, and it would oblige you to make some more of them.“
— Eugène Delacroix
Quote in his letter to Charles Soulier - 15 September 1821, Paris; as quoted in Eugene Delacroix – selected letters 1813 – 1863, ed. and translation Jean Stewart, art Works MFA publications, Museum of Fine Art Boston, 2001, p. 105
„We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things as they really are. It is surely easier to invent striking situations in this way than to tread the beaten track which intelligent minds have followed throughout the centuries.“
— Eugène Delacroix
6 April 1856 (p. 312)
„I have seen here [in London] a play on Faust, the most diabolic thing imaginable. The Mephistopheles is a masterpiece of caricature and intelligence. It is Goethe's 'Faust', but adapted; the principle features are preserved. They have made it into an opera mixed with comedy and with everything that is most sombre. The scene in the church is given with the priest's chanting and the organ in the distance. Impossible to carry an effect further, in the theater.“
— Eugène Delacroix
Quote in a letter (written in London, England) to J. B. Pierret, 18 June 1825; as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 67
„The more I think about colour, the more convinced I become that this reflected half-tint is the principle that must predominate, because it is this that gives the true tone, the tone that constitutes the value, the thing that matters in giving life and character to the object. Light, to which the schools teach us to attach equal importance and which they place on the canvas at the same time as the half-tint and shadow, is really only an accident. Without grasping this principle, one cannot understand true colour, I mean the colour that gives the feeling of thickness and depth and of that essential difference that distinguishes one object from another.“
— Eugène Delacroix
29 April 1854 (p. 228)
„I see in painters prose writers and poets. Rhyme, measure, and the turning of verses, which is indispensable and which gives them so much vigor, are analogous to the hidden symmetry, to the equilibrium at once wise and inspired, which governs the meeting or separation of lines and spaces, the echoes of color, etc..... but the beauty of verse does not consist of exactitude in obeying rules... It resides in a thousand secret harmonies and conventions which make up the power of poetry and which go straight to the imagination; in just the same way the happy choice of forms and the right understanding of their relationship act on the imagination in the art of painting.“
— Eugène Delacroix
Quote in Delacroix's Journal of 19 September 1847; as cited in Artists on Art – from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 229
„To be like other people is the real condition of happiness. Sea air and diversions are producing this miraculous effect upon me. What you need is just the contrary. You are dying of boredom from what most mortals regard as bliss – having nothing to do. You need the treatment opposite to mine; I am not joking in the very least: one has to be compelled to some task, driven to it: anyone who is not a drunken brute must achieve boredom at all costs unless he can discover the secret of a taste for amusements... These reflections.... are not likely to comfort you, but they will change your frame of mind for a few minutes. I shall probably be back in Paris on Thursday...“
— Eugène Delacroix
In: a letter to Madame de Forget, Dieppe, 13 September 1852; as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 68
„.. The movement and the rustle of the branches [in the forest, while losing his attention for chasing] delights me. The clouds float past and I lift my head to follow their flight, or think about some madrigal, when a slight sound, which has been going on for a little while, rouses me slowly from my dream.; at least I turn my head and see, to my grief, a little white scut just disappearing into the thicket...“
— Eugène Delacroix
Quote in a letter to Delacroix' friend Achille Peron - 16 September 1819, Paris; as quoted in Eugene Delacroix – selected letters 1813 – 1863, ed. and translation Jean Stewart, art Works MFA publications, Museum of Fine Art Boston, 2001, p. 51