Delacroix: Leading Light of the French Romantic Movement.(Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix)

USA Today (Magazine) | November 1, 1998| | Copyright

The artist formed the link between the traditions of the past and modernism, ultimately having a profound impact upon the Impressionists.

Throughout the career of Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix, his expressive use of color, dynamic compositions, and stirring subjects drawn from literature and contemporary events provoked his critics and endeared him to his champions. Despite the occasional controversy surrounding his submissions to the Paris Salon, an annual government-sponsored art exhibition, Delacroix, born in 1798, built a reputation as one of the foremost ...

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