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  • In White Flag, Jasper Johns's eponymous white painting of the stars-and-stripes flag appears solid, forming the wall of a compound, its shattered floor strewn with the hookah pipe and Arab slippers from one of Delacroix's Arabic paintings.

    Turner prize 2010 – review Laura Cumming 2010

  • The wonderful drawings from the Louvre at the Morgan let us test Delacroix's hypothesis.

    Drawn to Revolution Karen Wilkin 2011

  • The first room shows light-box images inspired by the 19th-century art he admires, like the studio shot of an upturned room that was loosely inspired by Delacroix's "Death of Sardanapalus" 1827.

    Jeff Wall's 'Crooked Path' Brigid Grauman 2011

  • Delacroix's reflection appears to cover most, if not all, of the artists mentioned in this post: gifted artists who are not generally considered great, but who produced a single masterpiece, often early in their careers.

    David Galenson: One-Hit Wonders Revisited: Happy Anniversary to The Last Picture Show David Galenson 2011

  • I'm the man in the tophat holding the rifle in Delacroix's Liberty Leading The People.

    Breaking And Entering John Olson 2011

  • Delacroix's admiration for the freedom and intensity of Rembrandt's drawings is palpable, equally visible in a highly developed study of Christ on the Mount of Olives, in calligraphic sketches, or in a drawing from life, of an Arab, made during a formative early trip to North Africa.

    Drawn to Revolution Karen Wilkin 2011

  • Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People" embodied the utopian fervor of the French Revolution.

    Brendan Smith: Calling All Artists: The Climate Movement Needs You Brendan Smith 2011

  • Paris Delacroix Remembered In 1864, a year after the death of French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix, Henri Fantin-Latour painted "Homage to Delacroix" in response to what he considered a lack of recognition for Delacroix's genius.

    What's On Around Europe 2011

  • Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People" embodied the utopian fervor of the French Revolution.

    Brendan Smith: Calling All Artists: The Climate Movement Needs You Brendan Smith 2011

  • Delacroix's hothouse lilies and tulips, by contrast, make a wildly unquiet still life where there is no place for the eye to take a rest.

    Impressionist Gardens; Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists 2010

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