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  • Drawing or Color, Part III: The Neoclassicists vs. The Romantics

    November 8, 2019

    Ingres considered bright colors “anti-historic” and warned his students against them. “Better to fall into gray,” he said, “than into bright colors.” Color, as Delacroix saw it, was essential to painting. “Remember,” he urged in his journal, “the enemy of all painting is gray.”

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