A Woman's Soul Searching : since 2012 : Favorite Paintings in the Exhibition Taipei from Musee d Orsay 1 : Romanticism and Classicism

Friday, June 9, 2017

Favorite Paintings in the Exhibition Taipei from Musee d Orsay 1 : Romanticism and Classicism

Delacoix , Eugene --- The Tiger Hunt 1854

Among his 224 works, including paintings and Lithography, one of Delacoix's favorite subjects was the oriental influenced theme as portrayed in this Arabic Horseman Tiger Hunt and many other works !

He also painted Paganini, Chopin, and Sand !

Liberty Leading the People 1830

Self Portrait

born: 26 April 1798; Charenton (Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne), Île-de-France, France *

Died: 13 August 1863; Paris, France *

Nationality: French

Art Movement: Romanticism

Field: painting, lithography

Influenced by: El Greco, Caravaggio, John Constable, Theodore Gericault, Peter Paul Rubens, Venetian School, Richard Parkes Bonington, Paolo Veronese, Tintoretto, Antoine-Jean Gros

Influenced on: Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, Impressionism, Camille Corot

Teachers: Pierre-Narcisse Guerin

Art institution: Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France; École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

Friends and Co-workers: Theodore Gericault

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Delacroix

Elie Delaunay --- Diane 1872

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Jean Leon Gerome ---

The Yong Greek at a Cock Fight 1846

In the "Neo-Grec" style, characterised by a taste for meticulous finish, pale colours and smooth brushwork, Gérôme portrays a couple of near-naked adolescents at the foot of a fountain. Their youthfulness contrasts with the battered profile of the Sphinx in the background. The same opposition is found between the luxuriant vegetation and the dead branches on the ground, and in the fight between the two roosters, one of which is doomed to die.