Name:
Eugène Delacroix
Born:
26 April 1798; Saint-Maurice, Île-de-France, France
Died:
13 August 1863; Paris, France
Nationality:
French
Art
Movement: Romanticism
Field:
Painting, Lithography
Influenced
by: El Greco, Caravaggio, John Constable,
Théodore Géricault, Peter Paul Rubens
Influenced
on: Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, Edouard Manet, Camille Corot
Friends/Co-workers:
Théodore Géricault
Eugène Delacroix was a French
Romantic artist who was born on April 26, 1798 and died on August 13, 1863.
Unlike the Neoclassical perfectionism of his main rival Ingres, Delacroix was
inspired by the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with
their emphasis on color and movement, rather than clarity of outline and
carefully modelled form.
The dramatic and romantic content became the central
themes of his maturity and led him to travel in North Africa in search of the
exotic rather than the classical models of Greek and Roman art.
As a painter
and muralist, Delacroix influenced the work of Impressionist painters with his
expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colors, and his
passion for the exotic inspired Symbolist artists. As an excellent
lithographer, Delacroix also illustrated various works of William Shakespeare,
Walter Scott and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
FAMOUS
WORKS
Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand
Study of a reclining nude
The
Barque of Dante (Dante and Virgil in the underworld)
The
liberty leading the people
The women of Algiers in their apartment
RELATED
ARTISTS
1. El Greco
2. Caravaggio
3. John Constable
4. Théodore Géricault
5. Peter Paul Rubens
6. Paul Gauguin
7. Edgar Degas
8. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
9. Edouard Manet
10. Camille Corot
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