Eugène Delacroix

Eugene Delacroix was born on April 26th, 1798 in Saint Maurice, France. At the time of his conception Eugene’s “father” was suspected to be infertile thus shifting the paternal title over to Talleyrand, a family friend. While Delacroix was young he received and education at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand and in 1815 he began artistic training. At the age of 17 Eugene Delacroix began his training under Pierre Narcisse Guerin. Delacroix was trained in the Neoclassical style, which is shown in his extreme

McCann, Carmen L. 2006. "Eugene Delacroix's Heroic Figures and the Status Viatoris." Constructions Of Death, Mourning & Memory Conference, October 27-29, 2006: Proceedings 29-32. McCann argues that Eugene Delacroix included status viatoris, representations of a state between life and death, in his works and discusses their importance to depicting a heroic death. This chapter looks at Delacroix’s works, including Liberty Leading the People from, multiple approaches, including biography, social history

Eugene Delacroix, born on April 26 1798, was a French painter who had a lot of influence on Romanticism. He studied art at age 17 and academic painter, Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guerin, mentored him. He learned from the romantic Landscapist and used some of their techniques. Early on in his life, he demonstrated the influence that Michelangelo and Peter Paul Rubens, two excellent artists, had on his painting. Delacroix intensely studied Michelangelo’s modeling of figures and the matter of life or death

In Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix tells the story of Trois Glorieuses or Three Glorious Days, also known as the July Revolution. During this time in 1830, King Charles X was overthrown along with the French Bourbon monarch. The liberal republicans were in complete disapproval by the violation of the French Constitution. The middle class demographic wanted more of a voice in the government. The revolution took lasted through a period of 3 days. Liberty Leading the People is political in nature

Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People is an oil painting that stands at 8′ 6″ x 10′ 8″, commemorating the July Revolution of France in 1830. The painting, when first displayed at the 1831 Salon, an annual exhibition of French Art, was met with strong reactions of disapproval due to his Romanticism influences and was later banned from public viewing. The 19th century experienced a transition from the Enlightenment Period of logic and reason, to the Romanticism artistic movement, of which Eugene

On Delacroix and Courbet The period surrounding 1781 to 1855 in France’s history is united by social and political change, an evolution of ideological struggles towards the best possible political struggle amongst anchoring human faults. The life of the artist too underwent change and struggled with the hierarchy that existed to validate artistic triumph. Changes are apparent amongst a broad spectrum, including David, Ingres, history paintings and caricatures. Artists that demonstratively

woman who inspired Delacroix to paint a portrait of them during his voyage to North Africa. His painting was a great work of art that gave us the perfect synthesis between romanticism and classicism and let us view the woman in their relaxed state in the Muslim Haram. Now Eugene Delacroix wasn’t the only one to paint the woman of Algiers, although he was the creator of the original painting. Pablo Picasso was another influential painter who was inspired by the painting Delacroix did of the women and

Eugene Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People commemorating the aftermath of a widespread revolt leading to the toppling of Charles X in the 1830 French July revolution. The painting is a representation of political motivation and revolotion symbolising ideals of freedom and autonomy as well as the consequnces for others as a result of political actions. Delacroix whilst employing saliency, personifies Liberty as Marianne, a representation of the French nation being represented allegorically

The first piece of art to be displayed is Eugene Delacroix’ a Basket of Flowers. Delacroix was a French Romantic painter of his time. This painting is currently housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. At the time it was painted there was great social and political unrest in post-revolutionary Paris, Delacroix left and returned to his country house, Champrosay, in September 1848. He then began a series of flower paintings, made “for the Salon of 1849”, that he hoped would capture the different

Art Inspired by the French Revolution 1 Art Inspired by the French Revolution UoPeople Student University of the People Art Inspired by the French Revolution 2 The French revolution began in the late 18th century. It started out quite peacefully when commoners, feeling oppressed by the Monarchy