Art, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives
Art, Modern--19th century--Themes, motives
Noon and Riopelle explore the artist's influence on modern art in the late-18th and early-20th centuries. An analysis and comparison with works by various artists whom he influenced include Edouard Manet, John Singer Sargent, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Odilon Redon, Paul Gauguin, Eugène Fromentin, Théodore Chassériau, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Frédéric Bazille, Ary Scheffer, Gustave Moreau, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Vincent van Gogh, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Richard Parkes Bonington, Gustave Courbet, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Jean Metzinger, and Wassily Kandinsky.
Prologue / Patrick Noon -- 'What is Delacroix?' / Patrick Noon -- Afterlife: Delacroix's posthumous fame / Christopher Riopelle -- Emulation -- Orientalism: imagined, experienced, re-imagined -- Narrative painting at a crossroads: 'Truth in Art' -- Delacroix's Legacy in Paint and Prose.