Eugène Delacroix  

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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

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. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, and the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He was a member of the Club des Hashischins and is best remembered for his 1827 painting The Death of Sardanapalus. To 19th century Parisians Delacroix was the founder of modern art. "The majority of the public," wrote Charles Baudelaire in his 1846 review of the salon (published posthumously in Curiosités esthétiques) "have long since, indeed from his very first work, dubbed him leader of the modern school."

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Baudelaire on Delacroix

Baudelaire worshipped Delacroix as a dark god and wrote in Les Phares: "Delacroix, lake of blood, haunted by evil angels"

Baudelaire considered Delacroix as the originator of modern art and he wrote in his review of the Paris Salon of 1846: "The majority of the public have long since, indeed from his very first work, dubbed him leader of the modern school." --Charles Baudelaire in Curiosités esthétiques.

Maurice Barrés on Delacroix

Mario Praz notes in The Romantic Agony that "Delacroix [was] the object of a veritable cult on the part of Maurice Barrès. "Du sang, de la volupté, de la mort" might well be the motto of his work," he adds.

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