ეჟენ დელაკრუა (Eugène Delacroix)

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Self-portrait

ფერდიანან ვიქტორ ეჟენ დელაკრუა (ფრანგ. Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix; დ. 26 აპრილი, 1798 — გ. 13 აგვისტო 1863) — ფრანგი ფერმწერი და გრაფიკოსი. ფრანგული რომანტიზმის ფუძემდებელი.ეჟენ დელაკრუა დაიბადა პარიზის გარეუბანში 1798 წლის 26 აპრილს. ოფიციალურად მის მამად ითვლება საშუალო რანგის ჩინოვნიკი შარლ დელაკრუა, თუმცა დადიოდა ჯიუტი ხმები, რომ სინამდვილეში ეჟენი ყოვლისშემძლე ტალეირანის უკანონო შვილი იყო.

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

As a painter and muralist, Delacroix’s use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish author Walter Scott and the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the “forces of the sublime”, of nature in often violent action.

However, Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast, and his Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of Baudelaire, “Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.” Together with Ingres, Delacroix is considered one of the last old Masters of painting, and one of the few who was ever photographed.

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http://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/ეჟენ_დელაკრუა
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delacroix,_Ferdinand_Victor_Eugene

Eugene Delacroix Quotes:
“Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.”
“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
“Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.”
“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”

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Paintings:
10. ეჟენ დელაკრუა (Eugène Delacroix)

Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1826), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux

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Christ on the Sea of Galilee, 1854

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Fanatics of Tangier (1838), Minneapolis Institute of Art

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Massacre at Chios (1824), Louvre

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The Death of Sardanapalus (1827), Philadelphia Museum of Art

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The Barque of Dante (1822), Louvre

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Liberty Leading the People (1830), Louvre, Paris

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Orphan Girl at the Cemetery, 1823, Louvre

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El Mulay Abderraman, Sultán de Marruecos, saliendo de su palacio de Meknes rodeado de su guardia, 1845.

01. ეჟენ დელაკრუა (Eugène Delacroix)

Cabeza de mujer, 1823.