Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix
Charenton Saint Maurice 1798-Paris 1863,was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, and the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 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 on color and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modeled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic.Friend and spiritual heir to Theodore Gericault, Related Paintings of Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix :. | Skull with Burning Cigarette (nn04) | Apples and Oranges | Detail from a sixteenth-century Flemish Tapestry showing how the handgun achieved a mastery over armoured cavalry in the battle of Pavia | little girl with falcon | Portrait study of Helene Rouart Standing | Related Artists: FOUQUET, JeanFrench Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1420-1477 GALLEGO, FernandoSpanish Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1440-1507 FERRARI, GaudenzioItalian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1471-1546
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