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Gericault

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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.

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The dancers formed tableaux that seemed to evoke the compositions of heroic Theodore Gericault paintings before scattering to the stage's perimeter.
George Stubbs used the wild-animal theme within naturalistic settings in several paintings, for example, in "Horse Attacked by a Lion," (1770; London, Tate), of which Gericault made at least one copy (1820/21; Paris, Louvre).
In a tableau worthy of Gericault, a little piece of Europe and a little piece of Africa silently regard each other in starlight on the Atlantic Ocean.
 
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