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From reason to unreason in French 19th century painting.

David to Delacroix (1952) by Walter Friedlaender is an interesting art history book in the sense that it tries to understand conflicting art currents, in casu Neoclassicism and Romanticism and Poussinistes and Rubenistes, personified by Ingres and Delacroix respectively, as a conflict between rationality on the one hand and irrationality on the other.

Researching this rationality/irrationality position, I thought that Goya's The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters is the best illustration to the debate.

I keep finding it strange that the French Revolution, in many ways the epitome of irrationality (September Massacres, the execution of Louis XVI, general mob violence) would end up with an extreme rational art, and that the art pope of the French Revolution would become J. L. David.


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