1. Coincidentia Oppositorum: The Layering of Contrasts in Paint
... the Orient is both a European dream and a historical reality, as evidenced by the form and content of their works. Baudelaire references the Opera Ball and old Kaffir women, and Delacroix titles his painting with a specific place which he visited to locate each work in a specific historical setting at a certain time and place, but they also portray the setting in a dreamlike manner ... abundance of patterns in the detailed visual descriptions of the women in both works serves to create a slow, melodic rhythm which reiterates the lazy time of day where either the hot sun beats down or sl...
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