Romanticism
. Romanticism is an artistic movement emerged in the eighteenth century Britain and Germany, then in the early nineteenth century in France, Italy and Spain
. The romance is opposed to philosophic rationalism of earlier centuries, especially during the Enlightenment.
. Romanticism aims to express the feelings of the artist his torments. He wants to show passion, melancholy, dramas and tragedies.
. Romanticism is expressed in painting (examples: Gericault, Delacroix). Romanticism is characterized by a willingness to explore all possibilities to express the ecstasies and torments himself heart and soul: it is thus a reaction of feeling against reason.
. The romance may be present in the novels of the nineteenth century as in Hugo, Chateaubriand, Stendhal.
Eugene Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People
1830 Louvre
Eugene Delacroix was born April 26, 1798 in Charenton-Saint-Maurice (Seine) and died in Paris August 13, 1863. It is a painter major movement Romantic appeared in France early nineteenth e century.
Delacroix has abandoned the academic tradition: in a movement similar to that accomplished in whereas poetry, he sacrificed for the benefit of drawing the color . His works made him the leader of the current romantic in painting.
Most of the works of Delacroix are of literary inspiration. But also performed works often incurred in connection with the news, as Massacres of Scio , and paintings with a religious theme. During a trip to North Africa in 1837, he was one of the first artists to paint from nature the East. Orientalism is characteristic of the Romantic artists of the nineteenth th century.
At the Universal Exhibition of 1855, he was recognized as the artist who was able to exceed the classical training to renew the paint, which did not prevent his works to be greatly admired of some, and much criticized by others.
Delacroix was one of the official painters of the Second Empire.
Delacroix's work has influenced many painters like Vincent Van Gogh . His paintings show indeed a great master of color.
The Liberty Leading the People is an oil painting of Eugene Delacroix made 1830, inspired by the revolution Three Glorious . Presented to the public at the Paris Salon of 1831, the work is transferred from the Musée du Luxembourg (where she was exposed from 1863) at Louvre in 1874. By its appearance and its political allegory, it has frequently been chosen as a symbol of French Republic or democracy.
's work impressive enough (325 cm x 260 cm) was conducted between October and December 1830. The scene takes place in Paris, as indicated by the towers of Notre-Dame smoke emerging from the plane. A crowd of rioters crossed a barricade. In the foreground, associated materials - tiles and beams - that form the barricade, the bodies of dead soldiers appear as twisted and disjointed. A worker or peasant injured, scarf tied around the head, emerges from the rubble, his body stretched and look towards a woman of the people, wearing a Phrygian cap escape leaving loops. This is represented by foot, waving a tricolor and occupies an important place indeed. Her breasts are partially exposed. There are four other characters on the edge of the barricade: two children of the streets - one wearing a beret waving cavalry pistols, the other wearing a police cap gripping the pavement - a citizen or student high platform, knees on the barricade and a worker wearing a beret, a saber lighter hand and his banner over his shoulder. The dominant colors are blue, white, and red hues that emerge from the gray and brown. Made from sketches drawn by the author in September, she enrolled in a triangle at the top is the flag.
