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Hundreds of Géricault s paintings, reproduced in stunning colour reproductions, show how his emphasis on the suffering inherent in modern existence represented a completely new way of depicting life. Marrying the Romantics fascination with horror and the unsentimental perspective of science with his images of madness and death, Géricault played a key role in the deliberate visualisation of the modern, existentially isolated,
individual. When placed in context with his contemporaries, such as Goya, Fuseli and Adolph Menzel, Géricault s work upends the traditional opposition of realism and Romanticism, presenting them as interrelated, sharing approaches.

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