1. Coincidentia Oppositorum: The Layering of Contrasts in Paint
... '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 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. The diction Baudelaire uses in "Beautiful Dorothea" conv...
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