19th Century Artist: Delacroix

How much do you know about the famous Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix? Well, you'll be learning alot because I'm going to be doing research into his art work and life. First, I'd like to give a brief description of him so you get a better understanding of him.

Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix was born in a town near Paris, France called Charenton Saint-Maurice on 1789. He started art early in life doing small drawings but later in his education at Lycee Louis-le-Grande, he had found his first professional art trainer named Pierre Guerin. In those
teachings he laerned a Neo-Classical style of the highly influencial Jacques-Louis David. In his art studies Delacroix had found wonder in a particulary new art style emerging at the time called Romanticism. Two artists that he admired specifically were French painter Peter Paul Reubins and Italian painter Paolo Veronese whos styles were unique beyond compare using colors to give their painting a new and warmer feel to them. Then he sought after his friend, Theodore Gericault's path whose work was the epitomy what Romanticism stands for. That's where ideas started flying in Delacroix's head and he was able to paint his first professional art piece accepted by Paris Salon called "The Barque of Dante". It's content was very controversial but the style was not new to the people, because the story of the painting had taken place way back in Ancient Greek times.

But that's only the start, in my next post, I will be analyzing Delacroix's paintings!