1. Coincidentia Oppositorum: The Layering of Contrasts in Paint
Both Eugene Delacroix's painting Women of Algiers in Their Apartment of 1834 and Charles Baudelaire's prose poem, "Beautiful Dorothea" can be understood in terms of Baudelaire's comment in the Salon of 1859 ... in the initial viewing the scene ultimately becomes one of emotion and metaphysical rather than physical sensation. These contrasting elements in form and content in Charles Baudelaire's "Beautiful Dorothea" and Eugene Delacroix's Women of Algiers in Their Apartment are the layers by which each artist created their work as a world unto itself, one which is both real and dreamed, inte...
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