NEO-CLASSICAL AND ROMANTIC ART

Neo-Classical and Romantic Art

Neo-Classical and Romantic Art

Introduction

For the Review, I have selected the painting Liberty Leading the People created by the artist Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863).I have selected this painting because I feel inspired the way the woman is depicted leading the people onwards to freedom. The modern world is in need of heroes like the one pictured here.

Delacroix had had close encounters with death five times in his life before he became the leader of a movement in France of the French Romantic. Delacroix was self-taught, who learned his artworks by copying the famous ...