Eugène Delacroix

On April 11th, 1970, the Apollo 13 was launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center to complete a mission in space. Their mission was to land on the moon and explore a hill called Fra Mauro. They were to gather samples of the moon’s sandy dirt and 4-billion-year-old rocks. It would take a total of four days to get to their destination. It was April 13th, 1970, the three astronauts only needed one more day to get started with their mission. Everything seemed as normal as a baby crying when it’s…

By creating a positive barrier between his Infantry and the enemy, it allowed for his men to deliver more accurate and deliberate fire at a greater pace and potentially avoiding every engaging in hand to hand combat. By using terrain to support the rifle fire, Marshal de Saxe effectively multiplied his armies effectiveness against the enemy without risking control of the battlefield that comes with hand to hand combat and battle lines mixing. His ideas and tactics found within Reveries on the…

CHILDREN IN the United States are routinely taught that Abraham Lincoln of Illinois freed the slaves. But few children learn that Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana devoted his life to ending wage slavery. Ray Ginger’s wonderful biography of Debs—The Bending Cross—first published in 1949, and reprinted by Haymarket Books in 2007—introduces readers to a working-class hero as well as a period of immense struggle from below often treated as a footnote in most U. S. histories. Some of Debs’ contemporary…

Have you ever wanted to be a magician? Well in this biography we talk about one of the world’s best magicians. This magician’s name is Harry Houdini, and he was a very odd person in his time. Houdini was born in Budapest, Hungary on March, 24, 1874. He grew up in the U.S. in Appleton, Wisconsin then moved to New York City. His magic acts started in a circus when he was about 8-10 years old. Once, he started magic on his own with his brother he then changed his name to Harry Houdini. His…

The Great Harry Houdini could escape anything. Houdini was a man who could take a hard hit. He was a unpredictable human being. At one point he had a straight jacket on held by his ankles upside down and some escaped the straight jacket. Harry Houdini was born in Budapest Hungary. Houdini's real name was Erich Weiss. He was on March 24, 1874. Eric and his family moved to Appleton, Wisconsin. Where he later claimed he was born. He also claimed to be born April 6, 1874. At a young age he wanted…

Gustave Courbet was a man interested in beauty no matter where he found it while Eugène Delacroix focused more on beauty in war and suffering. Both painters used color to enhance the authenticity of the the people in the images. As well as color, the painters used shadowing and it enhanced the mystery and seriousness of the paintings. Gustave and Eugène both painted pictures of characters that were surrounded by backgrounds that either enhanced them or the scene or the image in the back was…

chosen the following works because they each relate to war or conflict in their own way: The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Threnody to the victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Pedericki, and Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix. The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson tells the story of the 600 soldiers who were sent to their deaths. The deaths of those soldiers who died were due to the ill planned charge on the part of the commander. The troops knew of this…

Delacroix and Goya, the Romanticists, changed the Europe What is the difference between human and animal? During the Enlightenment period in Europe, scientists had defined the difference between human and animal as human can record history, and human form political societies. During the post-modern art history era, there was lots of art historical movements were appeared and perished. They were involved with the scientific development of human sometimes, and sometimes they were related to…

This would have had an effect on how he presented them in his paintings and would have given him even more emotion to add to his paintings. Liberty Leading the People The second artwork for this assignment I chose was Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix painted in 1830. In this painting is a woman in torn rags with a flag in hand and a musket in the other leading an army of men. The general browness in this painting is contrast to the few strong colours such as the crimson red of the flag…

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…