Ferdinand Victor Eugčne Delacroix – French 1798-1863
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Self Portrait,
ca. 1837
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a
French painter whose work exemplified 19th-century romanticism,
and whose influence extended to the impressionists.
Delacroix was born on April 26, 1798, at Charenton-Saint Maurice,
and he studied under the French painter Pierre Guérin.
He was trained in the formal neoclassical style of the French
painter Jacques-Louis David, but he was strongly influenced
by the more colorful, opulent style of such earlier masters
as the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens and the Italian painter
Paolo Veronese. He also absorbed the spirit of his contemporary
and countryman Theodore Gericault, whose early works exemplify
the violent action, love of liberty, and budding romanticism
of the turbulent post-Napoleonic period.
Delacroix's artistic career began in 1822, when his first painting,
The Barque of Dante (1822, Musée du Louvre, Paris),
was accepted by the Paris Salon. He achieved popular success in
1824 with Massacre at Chios (Louvre), which portrays the
topical and heroic subject of the Greek struggle for independence.
On a trip to England in 1825, he studied the work of English painters.
The influence of R. P. Bonington, who painted in bright, jewel-like
colors, is evident in Delacroix's subsequent works, such as Death
of Sardanapalus (1827, Musée du Louvre). A full-fledged
work of his mature style, it is a lavish, violent, colorful canvas
in which women, slaves, animals, jewels, and fabrics are combined
in a swirling, almost delirious composition. The painting portrays
the decision made by an ancient king to have his possessions (including
his women) destroyed before he kills himself.
Delacroix's most overtly romantic and perhaps most influential work
is Liberty Leading the People (1830, Musée du Louvre),
a semi-allegorical glorification of the idea of liberty. This painting
confirmed the clear division between the romantic style of painting,
which emphasized color and spirit, and the concurrent neoclassical
style (headed by the French painter J. A. D. Ingres), which emphasized
line and cool detachment.
Delacroix:
The Late Work by Eugene Delacroix, Vincent Pomarde
– Hardcover, 407 pages (September 1998) Thames & Hudson
A pivotal figure in the history of nineteenth-century art,
Delacroix stands both at the culmination of the great painterly
tradition of Titian, Veronese, Rubens, and Rembrandt and at
the beginning of something quite new and modern, as witnessed
by the reverence given him by artists of following generations
who were so profoundly influenced by his work: Renoir, Czanne,
Picasso, and Matisse. This publication, accompanying an international
exhibition that begins in Paris and travels to the Philadelphia
Museum of Art, presents in glorious color subjects ranging
from saints and warriors to mythical goddesses, from Arab
hunting scenes and tigers to sumptuous bouquets of flowers.
Delacroix's late work reveals a deepening spiritual intensity
and has more to do with aesthetic reflection and recollection
than with the expansive narrative that characterized his grand
public commissions. Focusing on the artist's last works allows
further insight into this most remarkable and protean figure
in the history of art.
The reader has the amazing feeling of following Delacroix—almost
physicall—in the slightest moves he makes and, above all,
in the most minute transformations of his artistic choices.
The author displays an impeccable erudition. Moreover, he offers
us a new, frank portrait of Delacroix, the man behind the myth.
This a complete revision of the classic Delteil catalogue
on the great French Romantic artist (1798-1863), originally
published in French in 1908.
Delacroix
in Moroccoby Delphine Le Cesne (Editor), Tamara Blondel
(Translator), Brahim Alaoui (Editor) – Hardcover, 239
pages (November 1994) Abbeville Press, Inc.
Delacroix
Pastels by Lee Johnson – Hardcover, 191 pages (October
1995) George Braziller
Although Eugene Delacroix never exhibited his pastels and regarded
them mainly as a private activity, the French Romantic artist
exploited pastel for his own creative ends, producing innovative
chromatic and textural effects, reveling in Oriental exotica
and exploring tonalities of light and color. The 60 pastels
reproduced in color in this attractive album and dating from
the 1820s through the 1860s embrace the full range of his subject
matter—portraits, nudes, North African scenes, tigers
in the wild, nature studies, ancient Greek history, mythological
and religious scenes as well as preliminary studies for The
Death of Sardanapalus and Women of Algiers in Their Apartment.
In contrast to his highly dramatic, often violent oils, his
pastels reveal his interest in being true to nature, in mastering
the structure and tints of skies, flowers, clouds, faces. Professor
emeritus at the University of Toronto, Johnson provides commentaries
on the plates plus an informal biographical sketch of the impulsive
artist, who held a deeply pessimistic view of the human condition.
—Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
NOTE: Also available in a six-disc
boxed
set featuring Goya, Whistler, Courbet, Freidrich,
Rossetti, Delacroix
Romantics
& Realists: Delacroix
Format:
Color, NTSC
Number of tapes: 1
VHS Release Date: August 29, 2000
Run Time: 50 minutes
NOTE: Also available in a six-tape
boxed
set featuring Goya, Whistler, Courbet, Freidrich,
Rossetti, Delacroix
For many lovers of Western Art, the 1830 painting Liberty
Leading the People remains the ultimate image of the Romantic
Age. A contemporary, revolutionary canvas full of color and
movement, it remains the masterpiece of the Frenchman Eugene
Delacroix—a painter deeply aware of the Romantic spirit
of the times. He was a friend of the composers Chopin and Berlioz,
and was also a huge admirer of the tragic figure of Byron. It
was Byron’s work that inspired The Death of Sardanapalus,
one of the most abandoned and violent images of Romantic Art.
His respect for Old Masters like Rubens was strong, and his
three decades of Parisian mural work was steeped in the tradition
of the Renaissance and the Baroque. One short journey to North
Africa also inspired a huge number of memorable canvases that
captured the light of the region as no artist had done before.
The Great Artists chronicles the lives, times and works
of the men whose genius has captivated the art world for generations.
Informative and entertaining, the series highlights important
events in each artist’s life, explores their stylistic
trademarks, and provides detailed explanations of their techniques.
The Great Artists also features expert commentary and analyses
from leading authorities, art historians and scholars, new location
footage and atmospheric re-creations.
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Eugene Delacroix 1798-1863: The Prince of Romanticism
Delacroix:
The Late Work 
Delacroix
Eugene Delacroix: The Graphic Work a Catalogue Raisonne 
Delacroix
in Morocco 
Delacroix
Pastels 
Romantics & Realists: Delacroix
Color, Dolby, NTSC
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