1. Coincidentia Oppositorum: The Layering of Contrasts in Paint
... the artist's own terms. Both Delacroix's painting and Baudelaire's poem are distinctly foreign and are visions of the Orient and its women. For these artists 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 ... harmony, she moves along, glad to be alive, smiling an empty smile," all serve to support the meaning and mood of this poem as slightly sour, positioning "Beautiful Dorothea" in a dream where these wor...
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