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(03-03-2017, 11:21 AM)peter Wrote: I read the article and thought it was very interesting. Many thanks for posting it, as I had never heard of Gericault and his great painting!

Gericault ! The first one who realised a monumental painting which was not at all to the glory of the regime (slaves trade, collapse of the Empire...) !

The first one who painted some monomaniacs for what they were without judjing them:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/b...the-insane

Gericault or the human tragedy transcended by the horses:

https://www.wikiart.org/en/theodore-geri...hite-horse
https://www.google.ch/search?q=the+geric...HlvQAmPW_M:
http://www.fineartprintsondemand.com/art...al_war.htm
(And guess what: The first man in "The raft of the Medusa" who saw the boat on the skyline is a black ! The Raft of the Medusa depicts the tragedy of a boat assuring the slave trade...).

And about the industrial revolution:

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/theodore-g...dead-horse
http://interactive.britishart.yale.edu/c...-your-door

And so on... But he dyed really too soon.

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