Eugène Delacroix: “Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them”

Eugène Delacroix

In the Mind of Great Artists

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“Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them”

Eugène Delacroix

This thought reveals the energetic and romantic spirit of Delacroix and his love for life, which made him the great master of Romanticism (early 19th century).

A passionate man with a vibrant life is amazed by things that do not move other people at all.

Delacroix’s feelings, passion, and romanticism are perceived in his furious brushwork, his lively palette, and in each movement of the figures and scenes full of vital strength he represented on canvas.

Those colors and fury caused the admiration of and influenced the following generations of artists: the Impressionists, Postimpressionists, avant-garde movements of the 20th century, and every painter with an Expressionist spirit.

Image: The Barque of Dante (1822)

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Timeline: from Neoclassicism till the end of the 19th century.

Characteristic Elements of Romantic Painting.

Liberty Leading the People) (1830), Eugène Delacroix.

Romanticism.

Turner Seascapes and Romanticism.

The Raft of the Medusa (1818/19), Géricault.

Third of May in Madrid (1814), Francisco de Goya.

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