Look at this painting and ask yourself, what do you see?Delacroix painted this at the age of 42 for a political poster for the 1830 Revolution. It was inspired by good friend, Theodore Gericault's Raft of Medusa (connections unidentafiable).
This is known to be one of the few to purely exemplify Romantic art by Delacroix. The message behind the piece is all about liberty for the people hence the name "Liberty Leading the People". Delacroix was not afraid to put color straight in the foreground or nudity or himself, he did all these things because he was leading Romanticism to fame. Shame, the government was so taken aback, they had planned to buy the painting but after seeing it they wanted it burned! It was only viewed to the public 18 years later in the Revolution. Delacroix did not forget to put detail in every last spot, whether it the corpses sprawled around the foreground or the crowd and town in the background. As I said before it was also made very apparent that he added a variety of color in the painting, for instance Liberty’s yellow dress, the country’s flags, and blue clothing in foreground.
This is known to be one of the few to purely exemplify Romantic art by Delacroix. The message behind the piece is all about liberty for the people hence the name "Liberty Leading the People". Delacroix was not afraid to put color straight in the foreground or nudity or himself, he did all these things because he was leading Romanticism to fame. Shame, the government was so taken aback, they had planned to buy the painting but after seeing it they wanted it burned! It was only viewed to the public 18 years later in the Revolution. Delacroix did not forget to put detail in every last spot, whether it the corpses sprawled around the foreground or the crowd and town in the background. As I said before it was also made very apparent that he added a variety of color in the painting, for instance Liberty’s yellow dress, the country’s flags, and blue clothing in foreground.
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“If I haven’t fought for my country at least I’ll paint for her" - Eugene Delacroix
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