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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
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linear perspective
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painters from England
creative response
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thus emphasizing
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figures are graceful
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distinguished by its mannerism
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master worked
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easel paintings
naming the artistic
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introduction of an orange-red
technique of oil painting
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surpass in this respect
outlines of buildings
tense in mood
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especially outstanding
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uniquely individual
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natural principle
inhuman tension.
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