Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix · French painter (1798–1863) · 1798–1863

Appears in 7 videos · 8 passages, 3 of them in depth.

Summary

Dominique Pagani mentions Delacroix mainly in connection with Liberty Leading the People. This painting occupies the centre of a triptych he builds between Poussin and Friedrich. In his view, the canvas depicts the Three Glorious Days but stands as a metonymy for the French Revolution: it is neither nature nor landscape but a scene of revolution1. Placed in the middle, it provides the spatial and logical mediation between revolutionary thought and landscape, because without the Revolution the passage from Poussin to Friedrich cannot be understood. Elsewhere, Delacroix serves him as a point of comparison. In discussing Nerval's Angélique, he contrasts Monet with Delacroix2 and notes the red and green of a landscape3. In a Musicosophie session, the lush colours of Chateaubriand make him think of The Death of Sardanapalus4.

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Who is this?

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( DEL-ə-krwah, -⁠KRWAH; French:; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school. 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 colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. […]

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Text: Wikipédia, CC BY-SA 4.0, excerpt · Portrait: Eugène Delacroix, Public domain

Cycle 5.2 · 26 May 2019#5.7 Nature or landscape?

1:36Liberty Leading the PeopleHis painting of the Three Glorious Days, neither landscape nor nature, provides the spatial and logical mediation between revolutionary thought and landscape.

Cycle 5.2 · 2 May 2019#5.6 Nature or landscape?

1:22:38Liberty Leading the PeoplePlaced at the center of the triptych: without the Revolution, one cannot understand the shift from Poussin to Friedrich.

Cycle 5.2 · 25 Jan 2019#5.4 Introduction: nature or landscape?

9:00Liberty Leading the PeopleThe painting in the middle of the triptych, a revolutionary Parisian scene.
15:33Liberty Leading the PeopleRepresents the Three Glorious Days but serves as a metonymy for the French Revolution, neither nature nor landscape but a revolutionary scene.