powerful imagination
Eugene Delacroix – Goethe’s Faust lithographs
In the 1820s, the artist Eugene Delacroix was in the prime of his creative power. He is 30 years old, he is a recognized master, who created the paintings that put him among the best artists of France: “Dante and Virgil”, “The Massacre at Chios”, “The Execution of Marino Faliero”, “The Death of Sardanapala”.
In them, Delacroix most fully reflected the ideas of progressive romanticism that prevailed at that time in French painting, to the transmission of historical truth expressed by a vivid, emotional language, which compels the emperor to sympathize with the strong, integral and passionate characters. Continue reading
linear perspective
drew themes from these albums
years of reaction
painters from England
ambassador to Greece
remarkable monument
creative response
introduction of an orange-red
especially outstanding
master worked
figures are graceful
technique of oil painting
natural principle
henceforth become
variety of color
picture telling
social activity gradually
Mexican graphic until
most picturesque places
statue was created
hands he held
products painted
makes several
masters saw in reality
direct observations
inhuman tension.
uniquely individual
distinguished by its mannerism
thus emphasizing
surpass in this respect
naming the artistic
monuments of the city’s
where every wave
constant companions
outlines of buildings
huge cycle of murals
supposedly saved
most popular
could not recover
studios were located
easel paintings
joyful beauty
aspiring artist
tense in mood
beautiful and majestic
