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0057. Medea about to kill her Children

CornTown

on March 4, 2010

By Eugene Delacroix. (1798-1863)
Circa. 1838
Romanticism

In contrast to his Neoclassical rival Jean Auguste Ingres. Delacroix took for his inspiration from the art of Rubens. Delacroix sot to focus his paintings on color and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modeled form. In addition, rather than studying the classical art of the Greek and Roman cultures, his studies lead him to North Africa, in search of the exotic. Other inspirations came from his friend and spiritual heir to Theodore Gericault, as well as the poet George Gordon Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in often violent action.

Jacob “Corntown” Gray

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