#delacroix
A woman has been arrested after defacing a painting by Eugène Delacroix at the Louvre satellite museum in Lens. The 28-year-old told police she had scrawled “AE911” with an indelible marker on the painting, Liberty Leading the People, to draw attention to an organisation that appears to believe the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy…
Read more here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/feb/08/delacroix-painting-defaced-louvre
A Liberdade Guiando o Povo, Eugène Delacroix, 1830.
A obra mais famosa do pintor Delacroix representa, alegoricamente, a liberdade ao fim da Revolução de Julho de 1830 (Les Trois Glorieuses) que pôs fim ao período da Restauração Francesa com queda de Carlos X. A figura central empunha a bandeira tricolor como símbolo da reconquista do orgulho da nação após a queda da monarquia e utiliza o barrete frígio (espécie de touca) que foi utilizada como marca da liberdade durante a Primeira República Francesa. O artista retrata o dia 28 de julho, dia em que os rebeldes, representados por estudantes, soldados e burgueses, romperam as barricadas e substituiram o monarca que estava no poder. O clima dramático da tela foi criado com o contratante entre as cores do céu e a das vestimentas dos soldados através da técnica do chiaroscuro e também da combinação dos detalhes do realismo com a emoção do romantismo.
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Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818
Emotions run supreme in Romanticism and now you don’t have to read the great Romantic literature of the 19th century to get in touch with your sentimental side. Simply follow our Romanticist artists on social media and let them bring a touch of sensitivity to your day. Just keep in mind that I am not responsible for the deep ponderous silences or existential awe which may occur.
William Turner ( Facebook|Twitter|Tumblr)
Francisco Goya ( Facebook|Twitter|Tumblr)
Eugene Delacroix ( Facebook|Twitter|Tumblr)
William Blake ( Facebook|Twitter|Tumblr)
Caspar David Friedrich ( Facebook|Twitter|Tumblr)
John Constable ( Facebook|Twitter|Tumblr)
Theodore Gericault ( Facebook|Twitter|Tumblr)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti ( Facebook|Twitter|Tumblr)
Ivan Aivazovski ( Facebook|Twitter|Tumblr)
Note: This is not a complete list of Romanticism artists and I will keep on adding to it :)
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Detail from Christ on the Sea of Galilee, Eugène Delacroix, 1841
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Fanart for @lechiappedizeus by Delacroix
An Italian webcomic that is currently having an eppela campaign (It’s an Italian Kickstarter)
https://www.eppela.com/projects/6067-zeus-miti-e-dintorni-il-pomo-della-discordia
Go throw money at him and maybe read his comic?
It’s fun if you love Greek mythology and wanna learn some Italian. I think it’s also in english tho.
The joke is that here in Italy we usually say that if someone gets cheated on horns grow on his/her/their head.
In Naples we have a say that states: “If Taralli would rain from the sky, none of them would touch the ground.“
That’s because they’d fall on their “horns”.
And we know how faithful Zeus was am I right?
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Just picked up a lot of inspiration from the MASSIVE #Delacroix exhibit! Swipe through! He loved depicting wild scenes of crazed horses and ferocious lions and tigers. He wrote a letter to a friend that said to ‘come quick! For a lion has died at the zoo!’ And they wanted to draw one up close before it was hauled away. For someone who couldn’t photograph his wild subjects he sure nailed their likenesses in paint! This crazy sketch is my impression of all I saw today. #metmuseum #horse #horses #terror #crazy #wild #wildanimals #tiger #lion #newtestament #selfcontrol #bible #bibledrawing #biblestudy #scripturedrawing #scripturesketch (at Hudson Yards New York)
https://www.instagram.com/anniepoon/p/BrBrkGWhVEW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=h5y7ke0huik3
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