Drawing acc. to Delacroix’s self-portrait 1930

This drawing, after Delacroix’s self-portrait, was made by Zygmunt Waliszewski using what looks like brown ink on paper. It’s so cool to see artists riffing on each other, like a visual conversation across time. Waliszewski lays down these confident, almost aggressive strokes, and leaves them raw, immediate. He’s not trying to hide the process; he’s flaunting it! The way he builds up the face with these bold marks – it’s like he’s chiseling the form out of thin air. And look at that scribble at the bottom – what is that?! A doodle? A signature? It's like a secret message from the artist. I love how the looseness of the drawing throws Delacroix into another dimension. It reminds me of how Francis Picabia used to rework and reimagine other artists' paintings. It is a reminder that art is an open-ended experiment.