Eugène Delacroix

Delacroix painted Liberty Leading the People in 1830. In his painting, a woman leads the people with holding the flag of French Revolution. There are fallen bodies, but she is going ahead. The woman who is known as Marianne is described as a symbol of Liberty. Delacroix depicted a robust woman. Barefoot and bare-breasted seems to be pure liberty strides. Delacroix wrote for his painting: "My bad mood is vanishing thanks to hard work…

Eugène Delacroix’s oil painting, Liberty Leading the People, was created in 1830 to commemorate the July Revolution which toppled King Charles X and replaced him with Louis Philippe. (Page B5.54/Page 8 of the PDF) Delacroix painted this masterpiece with the intent to celebrate the heroics of those who rebelled against King Charles X but also provide, as the textbook describes it's in page 7 of chapter 27 as, “a heroic allegory of the struggle for human freedom.” Both of these purposes are still…

Society” is similar to Eugéne Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People because they both emphasize a united people as well as stress the importance of the government replying to the people. However, while Rousseau discusses the relationship between ruler and subjects as an agreement, Delacroix depicts it as a power struggle. Although the two works are similar, Rousseau believes that the ruler and subjects enter an agreement in order to decide who is in charge, while Delacroix illustrates that…

his career, which led him to incorporate more line and composition into his developed works and create some of his era's most timeless canvases. He could influence from Romanticism and Baroque style period. The two artists are Diego Velazquez and Eugene Delacroix’s which Renoir could have get influences from because their paintings have something similar in the portrait painting named “By the Seashore” by the impressionist Renoir.…

This is a comparison of two paintings, one by Jacque Louis David and the other by Eugene Delacroix, to demonstrate how the French revolutions influenced European art. David comes from the Neoclassical perspective and Delacroix comes from the Romantic perspective. These paintings show how art changed in the way it presented subjects as reaction to historic events. The Neoclassical period came about during a time when academic art was both classical and historical. That meant a lot of the art…

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 he was mentored by academic painter , Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guerin. He learned from the romantic Landscapist and used dome of their techniques . Early on in his life, he demonstrated the influence that Michelangelo and Peter Paul Rubens, two excellent artist , had on his painting . Delacroix intensely studied Michelangelo’s modeling of figures and the life (or…

There are many similarities and differences between two paintings Liberty Lead the People by Eugene Delacroix and Execution of the Third of May by Francisco Goya . Both paintings are similar due to the fact that they depict the brutality of war. These paintings were also made during Napoleon's rule in the 1700’s. Liberty Lead the People was made to commemorate the French Revolution. The French Revolution began in the 1780’s and ended in the in the 1790’s. The Liberal Republicans were enraged by…

After our trip to the zoo, we were given a tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This tour was customized to fit what we are attempting to understand as a class. We learned about the history of animals within art, not just in modern days, but throughout history. After this tour that gave us a lot of knowledge about the depiction and symbolism of animals, we were given the task to find 3 pieces of art that “spoke to us” and describe our reaction to these works. To me there were many pieces of…

periods one can see how the three paintings share very similar aspects. These three paintings, all depicting Faust, were made by three completely individual artists. One from the seventeenth century was painted by Rembrandt, another painted by Eugene Delacroix in the 19th century, and a third during the 20th century by the artist Salvador Dali. Now,…

Contrariwise, the leader funded piece of architecture completely contrasted the rebellious and symbolic painting of rebellion shown in Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the people. Liberty represents the entirety of a country and its oppression…