Delacroix

[ duh-la-krwah ]

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noun

(Fer·di·nand Vic·tor) Eu·gène [fe, r, -dee-, nahn, veek-, tawr, , œ, -, zhen], 1798–1863, French painter.

Delacroix

/ dəlakrwa /

Delacroix(Ferdinand Victor) Eugène17981863MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter ( Ferdinand Victor ) Eugène (øʒɛn). 1798–1863, French romantic painter whose use of colour and free composition influenced impressionism. His paintings of historical and contemporary scenes include The Massacre at Chios (1824)

For Delacroix the outer world had no existence; that world alone existed which was within him.

The artistic power in Delacroix could in no wise submit to the confinement imposed by the French spirit of his time.

“Now the wolf is in the sheepfold” was his observation when Delacroix was elected to the Institute.

But where 257 Delacroix is rough and violent, Isabey is caressing and insinuating: they are not brothers, but distant cousins.

Delacroix was the first to treat once more of biblical subjects, so far as they are imbued with dramatic and passionate movement.

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