A freedom guiding or povo: analysis of Delacroix's work

Or quadro To free guiding or povo, by Eugène Delacroix (1789-1863), is a painting that portrays the Revolution of 1830, an important historical event that took place in France not the same year as the work was done.

O work, cujo not original é La Liberté guidant le peuple, belonging to the period of Romanticism, is an oil on canvas with large dimensions of 2.6 m x 3.25 m and can be seen in the Louvre Museum, in Paris, in France.

Analysis and interpretation of the work

To free guiding or povo It is a daquelas works of art that entered for history as an icon of a time and of a country (no case, France).

In the meantime, its symbolism ultrapassou borders and becomes an emblem also in the representation of fight for freedom in various parts of the world.

Being a painter of the romantic school, or author of canvas, Eugène Delacroix, values ​​the chromatic composition and as emotions, in order to create a unit in which these elements become essential for the appreciation of construction site.

A canvas is not a representation of the French Revolution of 1789.

A picture of reference to another rebellion, or run 41 years after.

A female figure symbolizing freedom

Freedom and portrayed by Delacroix nesse work through the figure of a woman, who becomes a metaphor for emancipation and autonomy.

She occupies the central place of the composition and appears as a torso nu, fazendo um parallel with ancient Greek sculptures.

Also, a woman takes on one of the best baioneta and another Bandeira da França, demonstrating sense of justice and leading to a non-revolutionary populace.

O corpo da moça presents a vigorous structure, as it was proper of the poor, and is in a kind of set, or that it is in a position superior to or remaining of the personagens.

A structure in the pyramid

The artist chose for this canvas a classical composition, with a pyramidal structure, as well as other mestres of art that have been used, both in painting, as well as in sculpture.

We can see that as forms and lines exhibited form a triangle When united, being that the upper vertex is a two fundamental points of the work, to me it gives freedom by securing Bandeira.

Such an outburst led to the observer for the French symbol, even as the structure is not consciously perceived.

As towers of Notre Dame

I know that Delacroix was influenced by a real event, when, in two days he was upset, French flag was raised next to Notre Dame Cathedral (another important symbol of the history of França).

Also, to paint his vision of what was a rebellion, or an artist inserted in the work of the towers of Notre Dame, which can be seen or founded in a new way that takes place in the conflict.

A palette of cores

For the painters of romanticism as cores were essentials in the construction of works. In this fabric, these elements are the most important still, you present a French nationalist symbol.

A large part of the composition is made up of drained tons, such as ocher, brown, pretos and cinzas. In the meantime, a French flag at the top gives or had a vibrant dinner.

Além disso, some chromatic intensity points They appear, repeating the colors of the bandeira, as it can be seen that the raptor's clothes that have been given to him by years of freedom, by means of a dead man and a semi-new man, or a fallen soldier's house.

Or blue, or white and or vermelho têm or purpose also to raise pontos of Illumination in the middle of the gloomy years. It is worth mentioning that a new brand founded the dinner he contributed to create contrast and tension.

As lines that give dynamism to composition

Also in terms of structure, there is a clear division of the fabric, from the lower part and occupied by fallen bodies, which form lines of horizons.

Above, in the greater part of the work, the people are standing or crouching, forming vertical or diagonal traces.

Dessa maneira, or spectator and guided by dinner, in order to perceive um dynamism and agitation of two fighters in opposition to immobility two dead and dead.

Or possible self-portrait of the artist

There is a figure that stands out in the fabric. He is a home of cartola who wields a weapon with my own hands and shows his determination.

It is speculated that this personage is a representation of his own artist, Eugène Delacroix. Contudo, there is no evidence that the home portrayed is a self-portrait.

Or fate that Delacroix was um enthusiast of great revolutions, being labeled as a rebel, just as he had not participated effectively in this revolution in questão.

At the time, or painter was encumbered with a production, I have revealed in a correspondence:

O meu mau humor is disappearing thanks to hard work. Embarquei num modern theme - barricade. Just as I have not had hair in my country, less colored hair for him.

Historical and social context

To free guiding or povo face reference to the Revolution of 1830, in France. I also know how Three Glorious, a revolt happened in July, us days 27, 28 and 29.

Contrary to or increased two imposts and years of absolutist rulership of the monarch who occupies or power, Carlos X, a liberal opposition leads a revolt that has support for the povo to dethrone or reign.

Assim, for three days the streets of Paris were taken over by rebels, generating violent conflicts. O rei Carlos X, frightened, went to England, praying the same end of Louis XVI, guilhotinado na French Revolution of 1799.

You think up revolutionary hairs and were founded on the same motto previously undertaken: liberty, equality, fraternity.

So that a revolt does not have consequences that benefit more popular litters, let him assume or be able to him or Duke Luis Felipe de Orleans, who supported the upper bourgeoisie, undertaking liberation measures and making it known as "rei bourgeois".

Maybe you are interested:

• Romanticism: characteristics, historical context and authors
• Livro Os miseráveis, by Victor Hugo (that contextualizes this historical moment)