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Considered the leader of the French Romantic school of painting, Eugene Delacroix was a prolific artist, producing over 9,000 works during his lifetime, ranging from paintings, to watercolors, pastels and drawings. His work both shaped the Impressionist artists and inspired the Symbolist movement.
Important Art by Eugène Delacroix. Progression of Art. 1824. Scenes from the Massacres of Chios. In the foreground of Delacroix's canvas, we see a group of distraught Greek men, women, and children laying huddled (some dead, some barely alive) on the ground.
Delacroix's painting of Chios Massacre during the Greek civil wars of 1823–1825 shows dying Greek civilians rounded up for enslavement by the Ottoman Empire. This is one of several paintings he made of contemporary events, expressing the official policy for the Greek cause in Greek War of Independence against the Turks, the English ...
Jul 12, 2024 · Eugene Delacroix, one of the greatest French Romantic painters, whose use of color was influential in the development of both Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting. His inspiration came chiefly from historical or contemporary events or literature, and a visit to Morocco provided him with further subjects.
May 7, 2024 · Eugene Delacroix was a prominent French Romantic artist known for his vibrant and emotional paintings. Born in 1798, Delacroix's work often depicted scenes of dramatic historical events, exotic landscapes, and powerful emotions.
European Paintings. The Abduction of Rebecca. Eugène Delacroix French. 1846. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 801. Throughout his career Delacroix was inspired by the novels of Sir Walter Scott, a favorite author of the French Romantics.
The Revolution of 1830 inspired his one truly popular work, Liberty Leading the People (Louvre). In the place of the febrile romanticism of his paintings of the 1820s, he now used a larger, more sober manner and colors of muted intensity.
Eugène Delacroix French. 1823–24 and 1835. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 801. In 1823, Delacroix began to paint this scene from Chateaubriand’s widely read Romantic novel Atala, which narrates the fate of the Natchez people following attacks by French forces in the 1730s.
1798 - 1863. Delacroix was the leading exponent of Romanticism in French painting. He was trained by the Neo-classical painter Pierre Guérin, from 1816 to about 1823. Guérin also taught Géricault. Delacroix first exhibited at the Salon in 1822. In style his work shows the influence of painters he had studied, notably Rubens.
In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis...
