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17. David used smooth brushstrokes to enhance the lifelike quality of the figures; Delacroix used expressive brushstrokes to create drama.
17. David used smooth brushstrokes to enhance the lifelike quality of the figures; Delacroix used expressive brushstrokes to create drama.
The painting employs pure colors and contrast between light and dark to emphasize key elements.
The neoclassicists held the belief that man was the supreme power of all, the center of all thought and truth. And also often has serious, heroic, and moral themes. It is very realistic. An example would be Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii. As said by Alexander Pope, "the proper study of mankind is man." They held strictly to reason and order, to intellect and precision. They attempted to achieve perfection. Opposing them was the next era, however, of romanticism. Romantics, in direct opposition to the previous age, believed in the guiding forces of nature. Is a reaction to neoclassicism and the Enlightenment. It focused more on the individual imagination and sought to evoke strong emotions and also has ties to the French Revolution. Look at Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People. They believed that nature held all truth, and didn't search for such in science and mathematics as the neoclassicists did. They were impassioned and fond of beauty, as well as myth.
Romanticism
17. David used smooth brushstrokes to enhance the lifelike quality of the figures; Delacroix used expressive brushstrokes to create drama.
17. David used smooth brushstrokes to enhance the lifelike quality of the figures; Delacroix used expressive brushstrokes to create drama.
Romanticism
What we usually call 'The French revolution' happened in 1789 and Delacroix was born 9 years later. There was also a revolution in 1830, which inspired Delacroix to his famous painting 'Liberty Leading the People'.
Delacroix wanted the painting to provoke an emotional response from viewers.
The painting employs pure colors and contrast between light and dark to emphasize key elements.
Delacroix: 'Liberty Leading the People', 1830, is probably the most famous example.
It would insight commoners to rebel
His most famous painting is called "Liberty leading the People" (1830) which is the painting that exemplifies the French Revolution.
Delacroix wanted the painting to provoke an emotional response from viewers.
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