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Delacroix was the most important painter of French Romanticism and laid the foundations for the development of Impressionism.
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The first quality of a painting is to be a joy for the eye… I want to please the worker who brings me a piece of furniture; I want to leave satisfied the man whom chance makes me meet, whether a peasant or a great lord… The fear of being disturbed when I am alone usually comes from the fact that I am occupied with my great business which is painting: I have no other that is important.
On July 1, 1854, at fifty-six years old, Eugène Delacroix described himself with these words.
Born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, in northern France, on April 25, 1798, he studied at the Lycée Impérial in Paris and from 1815 he was a student of the painter Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, in whose studio he also met Théodore Géricault.
The artist broke away very early from the neoclassical poetic style and came to be the greatest of the French Romantic painters.
From Romanticism his art embodies melancholy, the desire for change, aversion to academicism, creative impetuosity, exoticism, and a reference to events of medieval history rather than those of ancient history.
The artist died in Paris on August 13, 1863.
Michelangelo, Titian and Rubens were his great models, but his way of painting made a real qualitative leap only after he had seen the works of Constable.
Significant in this regard is a notebook of notes and sketches (a real travel diary), whose dimensions are only slightly larger than a modern pocket book, compiled in 1832 during his stay in Morocco and now in the Louvre
Almost all the pages contain drawings executed with freshness and accompanied by brief and sharp notes referring to them.
A stay in Morocco in 1832 led him to discover the brightness of the North African skies and the vivid colors. From Morocco he brought back to his homeland a large number of sketches and impressions which he drew upon throughout his life.
From a painter who used earthy colors and dark pigments to model figures, slowly, with patience and with personal observation of the phenomena of light and color, Delacroix became a colorist painter.
I see from my window a worker who is working, naked to the waist. I observe, comparing his color with that of the outer wall, how the half-tones of flesh are colored compared with inert materials. I observed the same
thing yesterday in the square of St. Sulpice, where a street boy had climbed onto the statues of the fountain in the sun. The dull orange in the highlights, the more vivid violets in the transition of shadow and the golden reflections of the shadows that contrasted with the ground. Orange and violet alternately dominated and blended together. The golden tone had some green in it. Flesh does not have its true color except outdoors and especially in the sun.
Hence the stupidity of working in the studio which tends to make that color false.
