Essays on Delacroix

This paper will look at love, sex and gender within the backdrop of postmodernism, existentialism and orientalism in the novels The Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia Djebar, Foam of the Daze by Boris Vian and The Lover by Marguerite Duras. In the novels love/ and sex are shown as something that a woman has no control over, something that destroys due to its intensity, and something that forever changes a person, respectively. While gender is seen as being something that disenfranchises women in a male dominant, unequal society and something that can destroy a man if ...

Romanticism. Introduction. As many got tired of regularity and rationality of Classicism, people of art started to try to find a way to express their emotions and attitudes through methods more free from canons. They found such possibility in Romanticism. Romanticism replaces the Age of Enlightenment, and coincided with the industrial revolution, that was marked by the advent of the steam engine, locomotive, ship, photos, and factory suburbs. While education was characterized by the cult of reason, and was based on its principles of civilization, romanticism advocated the cult of nature, senses and all the natural in man. It ...

The shift towards the Modernist Period from the decadence of the Baroque happened as a result of the outrage and disapproval towards lavishness in creating works of art, a trend once dominant and fashionable amongst the wealthy circles. What emerged as a result of this isolation was a new artistic movement that focused more on inspiring awe and sublime rather than theatrical presentation of the iconography. The term Modernist period has been debated throughout the centuries by the scholars since this period holds accountable of the changes in government and the people’s way of thinking. In this genre ...

Will you agree that war can bring not only destruction, but also production of something new and useful? The French Revolution inspired Eugene Delacroix on the creation of his the most recognizable painting Liberty Leading the People. It was painted in 1830, oil on canvas and is displayed in Louvre Museum in Paris. The painting produces a very strong impression and the emotions of the figures transfer to the viewers, as the subject of it is revolution and struggle of the people. The object on the canvas that immediately attracts the attention is the French flag and bears a ...

Short stories are some of the literature read mostly by people because they are interesting and considered more educative to young and old generation (Gioia 7). Many scholars wrote short stories in the twentieth century, and one of them was Shirley Jackson, who wrote The Lottery. The Lottery is among the most favorite short stories in the History of American Literature. As narrated by Cummings (3) he explains that the function took place between 10 am and noon on June 27th in a small village with a population of only three hundred villagers. The event took place on a ...

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The essay looks into the work of an author and a painter, and how they try to express the particular sentiments of the Romantic era. Two works are chosen for the purpose, one is Topic Delacroix, “Massacre at Chios” and the other is “Alastor” poem By Percy Bysshe Shelley.Massacre at Chios by Delacroix The “Massacre at Chios” has been a favorite piece of artwork among the historians and the art critiques. The 1824 painting by Delacroix depicts the aftermath of the invasion of Greeks on the island of Chios by the Turkish ...

"Jeune orpheline au cimetière" and "Jane, Countess of Harrington" symbolize two different periods of the art history. Young Orphan Girl in the Cemetery is an early work of Eugène Delacroix, the master of French Romanticism. The picture is full of sadness - there is a young orphan girl in a white gown, which slightly shows her bare shoulders. She is looking somewhere beyond the picture frame and Delacroix shows the girl's despair through certain elements like tears in her dark eyes or her lying hand. She seems to be distracted from what surrounds her, the artist uses ...

After viewing the film, I have a mixed take of what Spike Lee believes whether mass media outlets can be changed or that racial stereotypes will continue to be emphasized. The film argued both ways implicitly and explicitly where one could interpret the movie in both ways. The argument that mass media can be changed is represented by Sloane Hopkins, the assistant of Delacroix who was embarrassed to be associated with the minstrel show that was created. She even went to the extreme of pointing a gun at Delacroix to force him to see his racial misdeeds. The argument that leans ...