August 26th, 2010
William Koch on the Disciples of Ugliness
Tags/ Posted by Mark Kerstetterevery day Sarah gave thanks for the embalmed words of her childhoodcontinue reading this poem
In the early half of the eighteen hundreds the French Neo-Classical painter Ingres sneeringly described the younger Romantic painter Delacroix as “a disciple of ugliness”. A century later the French novelist Jean Genet claimed that “Ugliness is Beauty at rest.” Between these two events stretches the Romantic revolution in art.
