In creating these layers in both content and form, both Delacroix and Baudelaire construct works of art which become worlds unto themselves, with their own truths and limits, worlds where oppositions are blurred and recreated on the artist's own terms. ... For these artists the Orient is both a European dream and a historical reality, as evidenced by the form and content of their works. ... Yet Delacroix also subtly references the exterior in both content and form. ... This viewer/speaker/artist is both intimate with and distant from the woman he is viewing, forming an uneasy relation...

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