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Eugène Delacroix
(b. April 26, 1798, Charenton-Saint-Maurice, Fr.--d. Aug. 13, 1863,)
Delacroix, Eugène, in full FERDINAND- VICTOR-EUGENE DELACROIX
(b. April 26, 1798, Charenton-Saint-Maurice, Fr. d. Aug. 13, 1863,
Paris), the greatest French
Romantic
painter, whose use of colour was
influential in the development of both
Impressionist and
Postimpressionist painters. His inspiration came chiefly from
historical or contemporary events or literature, and a visit to
Morocco in 1832 provided him with further exotic subjects.
[Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994]
Eugene Delacroix is numbered among the
greatest and most influential of French painters. He is most often classified
as an artist of the
Romantic
school. His remarkable use of color was later to
influence
impressionist
painters and even modern artists such as
Pablo Picasso.
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix was born on April 26, 1798, in
Charenton-St-Maurice, France. In 1815 he became the pupil of the French
painter Pierre-Narcisse Guerin and began a career that would produce more
than 850 paintings and great numbers of drawings, murals, and other works. In
1822 Delacroix submitted his first picture to the important Paris Salon
exhibition:
Dante and Virgil in Hell.
A technique used in this work many
unblended colors forming what at a distance looks like a unified whole would
later be used by the impressionists. His next Salon entry was in 1824:
Massacre at Chios.
With great vividness of color and strong emotion it
pictured an incident in which 20,000 Greeks were killed by Turks on the
island of Chios. The French government purchased it for 6,000 francs.
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