Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix | |
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 Nadar ke banaawa gais chhaapa, c. 1857 | |
| Janam | Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix 26 April 1798 Charenton-Saint-Maurice, Seine, France |
| Maut | 13 August 1863 (aged 65) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
| Known for | Painting, lithography |
| Notable work | The Barque of Dante (1822) The Massacre at Chios (1824) Liberty Leading the People (1830) |
| Movement | Romanticism |
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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (/ˈdɛləkrwɑː, ˌdɛləˈkrwɑː/ DEL-ə-KRWAH-,_---krwah; fr; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) France ke ek Romantic chitrkaar rahaa jiske French Romantic school ke neta maana jaawat rahaa.[1]
Neoclassical perfectionism ke mukaable me uske khaas virodhi Ingres rahaa. Delacroix aapan prernaa Rubens aur painters Venetian Renaissance ke chitrkaar se liis rahaa, aur uu rang aur movement pe emphasis diis, clarity of outline aur carefully modelled form ke jagha. Uske central theme me drama aur romantic content rahaa, aur iske kaaran uu Greek aur Roman art ke chhorr ke , North Africa me ghumis, exotic content ke khoj me.[2] Uu Théodore Géricault ke friend aur spiritual heir rahaa, aur Lord Byron se bhi inspired rahaa, jiske saathe uu ek tagrraa "forces of the sublime" rahaa, of nature in often violent action.[3]
- ↑ Noon, Patrick, et al., Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism, p. 58, Tate Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1-85437-513-X
- ↑ Gombrich, E.H., The Story of Art, pp. 504–06. Phaidon Press Limited, 1995. ISBN 0-7148-3355-X
- ↑ Clark, Kenneth, Civilisation, p. 313. Harper and Row, 1969.