Artworks have the capacity to express deep emotions and influence generations. A variety of art forms such as paintings, sculptures, architecture, music, literature, etcetera, have profoundly emphasized past cultures and contributed to present day. Numerous works of art, even from prehistoric times are able to inspire artists because they are everlasting imprints. Similar stylistic forms and structural designs are utilized by different artists due to their impacts on one another. Artists create these meaningful masterpieces representing their emotions, culture, imagination, or events within society. For example, violent wars such as those from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries swayed artists to depict the devastation they caused upon
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This revolution overthrew King Charles X of France and citizen King Louis-Philippe came to power. Part of the revolution’s cause was because the thrown was given by hereditary privilege to Charles X as opposed to popular consent, the consent of the French people. In the years prior to this revolution a monarchy had been restored in France that was very politically brutal. Therefore, the July Revolution of 1830, was protest and open warfare in the streets of Paris that brought into power a constitutional monarchy and a citizen king more attentive and favorable to the …show more content…
His clothing, working shirt and trousers identify him as a factory worker. A younger man to his left is clearly of a higher economic status. This young man wears a tall black hat, an open-collared white shirt, and a fancy custom-fit black coat. Instead of holding a military weapon such as one the man to this left carries, he grips firmly onto a hunting shotgun. Just below these two figures is another man dressed in a nightshirt and one sock, collapse on cobblestones, which were scattered along the streets to form a barricade. One of the practices of the government during this time was to go after those against the government in their home torture them and drag them out to the streets, as a method to get them to stop rebelling. Thus, the man in his nightshirt was a victim of government cruelty. Another figure of the left section of this composition is a young, fallen boy wearing a bicorne and a droopy blue jacket. This appears to have difficulty recovering his footing due to the cobblestones. At the midpoint of Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix places an allegory of Liberty personified by a young female wearing a Phrygian cap and a yellow dress that is slipping from her shoulders and revealing her breasts. Liberty raises the tricolor, French national flag with her right arm and holds a bayoneted musket in her left hand, as she vigorously strides forward over the
This revolution overthrew King Charles X of France and citizen King Louis-Philippe came to power. Part of the revolution’s cause was because the thrown was given by hereditary privilege to Charles X as opposed to popular consent, the consent of the French people. In the years prior to this revolution a monarchy had been restored in France that was very politically brutal. Therefore, the July Revolution of 1830, was protest and open warfare in the streets of Paris that brought into power a constitutional monarchy and a citizen king more attentive and favorable to the …show more content…
His clothing, working shirt and trousers identify him as a factory worker. A younger man to his left is clearly of a higher economic status. This young man wears a tall black hat, an open-collared white shirt, and a fancy custom-fit black coat. Instead of holding a military weapon such as one the man to this left carries, he grips firmly onto a hunting shotgun. Just below these two figures is another man dressed in a nightshirt and one sock, collapse on cobblestones, which were scattered along the streets to form a barricade. One of the practices of the government during this time was to go after those against the government in their home torture them and drag them out to the streets, as a method to get them to stop rebelling. Thus, the man in his nightshirt was a victim of government cruelty. Another figure of the left section of this composition is a young, fallen boy wearing a bicorne and a droopy blue jacket. This appears to have difficulty recovering his footing due to the cobblestones. At the midpoint of Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix places an allegory of Liberty personified by a young female wearing a Phrygian cap and a yellow dress that is slipping from her shoulders and revealing her breasts. Liberty raises the tricolor, French national flag with her right arm and holds a bayoneted musket in her left hand, as she vigorously strides forward over the