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Géricault
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Gé·ri·cault  (zh-r-k), (Jean Louis André) Théodore 1791-1824.
French painter whose boldly colored, unorthodox works, such as The Raft of the Medusa (1819), introduced romanticism to French painting.
Géricault (French) [ʒeriko]
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(Biographies / Géricault, (Jean Louis André) Théodore (1791-1824) M, French, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) (Jean Louis André) Théodore (teɔdɔr). 1791-1824, French romantic painter, noted for his skill in capturing movement, esp of horses
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Apart from Art Deco items that smashed several records, a 19th century oil by Theodore Gericault also sold for a record as did works by Ingres.
Crisis-defying YSL art sale smashes new records by AFP / AFP Global Edition
To understand his project means thinking him as part of a constellation that includes William Blake, Gericault, Toussaint-Louverture, Marx, Melville, Balzac, Robert Owen, and others--individuals who, within the vertiginous falling away of familiar stabilities and certainties, saw revelatory flashes of what would (or could) follow in the wake of a new universal humanity on the one hand and the invisible and deracinated powers of capital on the other.
Memo from Turner; Jonathan Crary on J. M. W. Turner by Crary, Jonathan / Artforum International
Of these two wrote up their experiences, which included cannibalism, and the young painter, Theodore Gericault, painted The Raft of the Medusa, a masterpiece describing their plight.
Medusa: The Shipwreck, the Scandal, the Masterpiece by Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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