https://padlet.com/catalina478/gp72sra26gsw Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2018-04-11 15:19:54 UTC 2018-04-11 16:19:53 UTC hello@padlet.com catalina478 https://padlet.com/catalina478/gp72sra26gsw/wish/250778717 In 1798 he became a leading figure during the Romantic Era. "Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement."]]> 2018-04-11 15:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/catalina478/gp72sra26gsw/wish/250778717 catalina478 https://padlet.com/catalina478/gp72sra26gsw/wish/250783073 Eugène Delacroix]]> 2018-04-11 15:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/catalina478/gp72sra26gsw/wish/250783073 catalina478 https://padlet.com/catalina478/gp72sra26gsw/wish/250784070 "Eugène Delacroix was born on 26 April 1798 at Charenton-Saint-Maurice in ile-de-France, near Paris. There is reason to believe that Eugène's father, Charles-Francois Delacroix, was infertile at the time of Eugène's conception and that his real father was  Talleyrand, who was a friend of the family and successor of Charles Delacroix as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and whom the adult Eugène resembled in appearance and character."]]> 2018-04-11 15:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/catalina478/gp72sra26gsw/wish/250784070 catalina478 https://padlet.com/catalina478/gp72sra26gsw/wish/250789838 One of Eugène Delacroix's uncles inspired him. ]]> 2018-04-11 16:00:51 UTC https://padlet.com/catalina478/gp72sra26gsw/wish/250789838 catalina478 https://padlet.com/catalina478/gp72sra26gsw/wish/250790850 "In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modeled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic."]]> 2018-04-11 16:02:42 UTC https://padlet.com/catalina478/gp72sra26gsw/wish/250790850 catalina478 https://padlet.com/catalina478/gp72sra26gsw/wish/250794915 Eugène's painting style was Romanticism. In his later life he became a muralist. ]]> 2018-04-11 16:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/catalina478/gp72sra26gsw/wish/250794915