Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix, Portrait
Just look into history to understand that freedom is an inalienable right of every person and every people and every nation that has always been the oppressor and oppressed rebels fighting for the breath of freedom.
Under, Liberty Leading the People, Eugene Delacroix represents a historic moment, the backbone of every revolution , the revolution broke out in France in 1830. The scene, between realism and idealism, takes place in Paris as evidenced the cathedral of Notre-Dame. The people are in turmoil, he rebelled and erect barricades against the reactionary policies of Charles X. The protagonist is a woman scantily dressed in robes, a symbol of freedom, which makes the buoyant crowd, followed by the people represented, as is clear from the clothes, from different walks of life. It captures the characters occurrence of the same artist who portrays symbolically and faith in the ideals, violence, courage and death. The painting evokes the bodies on the ground pour The Raft of the Medusa of Gericault Delacroix with the difference that not expresses the drift of human life and the defeat but the struggle for freedom and the title changed to Freedom guides peoples , extends to all peoples whose motto became "Risorgimento".
Jean-Louis Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) The Raft of the Medusa
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