Art History and it’s Methods
...ing back the traditional styles of classicism and romanticism. This is shown when Jobert heightens our appreciation of how the picture succeeds as a complex and fluent interweaving of brush strokes, color harmonies, and design patterns (Visual Literacy 225). Jobert does not believe that this painting was done with a hidden meaning, he believes that is was the artist’s own initiative for doing this piece. Unlike DelPlato who believes the exact opposite. Jobert takes great notice to the detail to the treatment of the light. He brings up the fact that the artist decides to bring in the source of light from the left side of the painting instead of the right. Which is a surprise because in Delacroix’s other paintings he does not do this. He also believes that this new direction of light exposes the colors in a more varied and vibrant way. Jobert describes the four figures as having there own harmonies. He goes in to detail by saying that: red, blue, and black are for the servant; rose, white, green, and orange are for the women holding the stem of the narghile; blue, red, and ocher for her seated companion; red, white, brown, and gold for the one partially reclining at left (Jobert228). Jobert even notices how the rendition of the light on different materials takes primacy over the color groupings on the floor, dishes, and the curtains. Jobert defiantly notices the style of classicism and romanticism in this painting and sticks by his opinion that this is all Delacroix was...