Eugène Delacroix

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( ; ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) France ke ek Romantic chitrkaar rahaa jiske  French Romantic school ke neta maana jaawat rahaa.Noon, Patrick, et al., Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism, p. 58, Tate Publishing, 2003. 

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.Gombrich, E.H., The Story of Art, pp. 504–06. Phaidon Press Limited, 1995.  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.Clark, Kenneth, Civilisation, p. 313. Harper and Row, 1969.

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