Interesting reading

leí unicamente the painter of modern life so i'm using this como un marcador de ese ensayo únicamente, tal vez en un futuro me anime a leer más de baudelaire

en fin, mi experiencia leyendo el ensayo fue tipo esa escena de sharon tate viendo sus películas en ouath toda emocionada, feliz, orgullosa del arte que ha creado y de repente. patas!!!!! that's how it felt to me cada vez que después de leer de la brevedad del arte y la imaginación de artistas como delacroix el autor dejaba ver la misoginia tan presente y casual de su época. sé que es justamente por la época, pero ugh, creo que de haber sido una mujer de época probablemente me habría suicidado o acabado con cualquier hombre que se me cruzara porque naguevona

I found this book very hard to read as I had almost no knowledge of any of the artists Baudelaire spends the majority of his time talking about. That being said, this was clearly more of a learning experience than an enjoyable read for me. Baudelaire's language is unique and vivid, and his interpersonal relationships with artists (such as Delacroix) are quite interesting. I definitely know I can get more out of this book, and perhaps when I learn more about art history (and particularly modern art history), I'll get to enjoy this collection of essays a lot more than I do now.

< the generosity of genius, which stems perhaps from a particular form of simplicity, or from a capacity to enjoy things easily >

ulubione

I struggled to decide whether this should be 3 or 4 stars, but given that I didn't enjoy reading a vast chunk I've knocked it down to 3. It was an interesting style of writing, and what drew me in particular to this book (aside from Baudelaire being recommended to me on several occasions at uni), was that it was part of a series 'dedicated to those writings that changed the way people thought about the world' or something... To be honest, I probably could do with re-reading the beginning, or reading it solidly over a few days rather than sporadically over a few months, as I really can't remember much from the first part. some of it clearly struck a chord with me, as I've underlined and highlighted several passages, but the swathes of praise for Delacroix sort of fell on deaf ears, as I'm not that familiar with his work (and to be fair, nothing in the passages made me think 'oh I should go look him up'). The final passage on photography and how it should not be considered art, and should remain low-brow was fairly amusing to me, not least because it was referred to as mechanical; as are certain types of printmaking, but he lauds that earlier in the book.