he was a romantic painter, iam trying to figure out what is he trying to say with the painting, i know it has to do something with liberty, and i suppose that the flag means something, and how the guys look at her and how its is a woman and not a man. i just need to get more deep? if any one knows please help me!!
2006-12-06 13:22:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
I think it is about the spirit of the French people, I think the woman represents France and by those two thoughts I think that is why the French Government removed the painting from public viewing. Now you can see it at The Louvre
2006-12-06 13:39:21 · answer #1 · answered by atantatlantis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Delacroix's most influential work came in 1830 with the painting Liberty Leading the People, which for choice of subject and technique highlights the differences between the romantic approach and the neoclassical style of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Probably Delacroix's best known painting, it is an unforgettable image of Parisians, having taken up arms, marching forward under the banner of the tricolour representing liberty and freedom; Delacroix was inspired by contemporary events to invoke the romantic image of the spirit of liberty. The soldiers lying dead in the foreground offer poignant counterpoint to the symbolic female figure, who is illuminated triumphantly, as if in a spotlight.
The French government bought the painting but officials deemed its glorification of liberty too inflammatory and removed it from public view. Nonetheless, Delacroix still received many government commissions for murals and ceiling paintings. He seems to have been trying to represent the spirit and the character of the people, rather than glorify the actual event, a revolution against King Charles X which did little other than bringing a different king, Louis-Philippe, to power.
Following the Revolution of 1848 that saw the end of the reign of King Louis Philippe, Delacroix' painting, Liberty Leading the People, was finally put on display by the newly elected President, Napoleon III. Today, it is visible in the Louvre museum.
The boy holding a gun up on the right is sometimes thought to be an inspiration of the Gavroche character in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, Les Misérables.
I don't like to cut and paste but it was way more accurate this way hope it helps.
2006-12-06 13:30:26 · answer #2 · answered by mia 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lady Liberty Leading The People
2016-12-17 16:33:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Liberty Leading The People Analysis
2016-10-31 06:05:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Throughout art history the female gender has been symbolically used for illustrating intangible or tangible objects to infer man's inability to control the object or feeling. For this reason ships were feminine and hurricanes were, until very recently, given female names as well. Justice is a female form with a blindfold and a weighing scale.
It is important to remember this painting was done for a commission: Hence all the classical bows to traditonal art allegory.
The artist's conceit is to engender concepts or ideas by using the female form is a classical Greek art form.
Liberty is the wild, free, larger than life, form of a woman holding the French flag and dragging behind her the masses of downtrodden peasants to illustrate a philosophy is greater than the men who do her bidding. The painting was removed from viewing and Liberty now residing in the Louvre where she is more appreciated.
The Statue of Liberty is also a female form and for just the same reason: females are the nurturing mother figures to all men who are perplexed and enamored of her.
It is ironic that these ancient men used the female form to embody freedom, liberty, and justice, when women of their time were very little more than marital slaves.
2006-12-06 13:36:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The tricolor flag is a symbol of the French Revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_France#History); it replaced the fleur de lis patterned flag (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Royalist_France.svg). Liberty is depicted as both goddess and woman "of the people" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People). The men are looking at her both reverently and for guidance. Each of the 3 men represents different classes in France during the Revolution:
Middle class - gentleman in frock coat
Lower class - youth carrying pistols on Liberty's left
Racial minorities - black saber bearer
2006-12-06 13:35:49 · answer #6 · answered by jaded1004 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋