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Eugène Delacroix

1798–1863 · French · Romanticism

French Romanticism against the academy — colour and energy over drawing and restraint.

Eugène Delacroix led the Romantic revolt against the cool, linear Neoclassicism that ruled French painting after the Revolution. Where the academy wanted drawing, restraint and antique subjects, he wanted colour, movement and the present day.

He was a formidable colourist and knew it: his journals and his studies of complementary contrast were read closely by the Impressionists a generation later, and Signac wrote a whole book tracing the line from him to Neo-Impressionism.

Liberty Leading the People was painted within weeks of the Three Glorious Days of 1830. The state bought it in 1831 and then kept it out of sight for years — the image was considered too openly seditious to hang.

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Romantic painting was made fast and in high contrast, against an academy that wanted drawing and restraint. The loose handling is the argument, so tidying it into a careful finish is the surest way to kill the picture.

Biographical details on Wikipedia.

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  • Liberty Leading the People 1830 Department of Paintings of the Louvre
  • Death of Sardanapalus 1827 Department of Paintings of the Louvre
  • The Massacre at Chios 1824 Department of Paintings of the Louvre
  • The Barque of Dante 1822 Department of Paintings of the Louvre
  • The Women of Algiers 1834 Department of Paintings of the Louvre
  • Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi 1826 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
  • Orphan Girl at the Cemetery 1824 Department of Paintings of the Louvre
  • Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople 1840 Department of Paintings of the Louvre

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