1. Coincidentia Oppositorum: The Layering of Contrasts in Paint
... but also interior and exterior, viewer and viewed, individual and environment, light and dark, contrasting rhythms, and finally action and stasis. In creating these layers in both content and form, both Delacroix and Baudelaire construct works of art which become worlds unto themselves, with their own truths and limits, ... day where either the hot sun beats down or slowly baths the apartment in shadow - the reader or viewer of each work strains to wade through the detailed patterns of color or diction and syntax. Vibrant colors and patterns rub up against one another guiding the viewer...
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