Two artists who work in contrasting ways, Tight and Rigorous Vs Sketchy and Expressive

Two artists who work in contrasting ways, Sketchy and Expressive Vs Tight and Rigorous P.55



                          Eugene Delacroix       Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
                           1798 –1863                   1780 –1867

  

Eugène Delacroix was born in France in 1798 and regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school very early in his career. His style of art influenced the impressionists that followed, as he set the benchmark with his "rough but swinging brushstroke, experimented with colours and light and sometimes neglected proper use of perspective: all typical elements of the impressionist"  In contrast, Delacroix was also a fine lithographer illustrating the works of William Shakespeare amongst others. Inspired by masters of colour such as Rubens, Delacroix preferred "movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modeled form", a philosophy that was opposite to the Neoclassical perfectionism way of thinking and its leader, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. What was interesting was that Delacroix could separate the Romanticism in his art with that of his personality, In the words of Baudelaire, "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible."

       Eugène Delacroix - Artist's model                           Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres


Born in 1780, Montauban, France, Ingres won his scholarship at the Cole Des Beaux-Arts School. His first public portrait was Napoleon on His Imperial Throne (1806), the piece was not universally liked and described as stiff and archaic. Learning his trade in Italy he worked on portraits and history paintings. The time away to better himself paid off and he was praised for the critically acclaimed piece The Vow of Louis XIII (1824). Ingres was crowned leader of French Neoclassical painting, a style of painting at polar opposites to Eugene Delacroix's Romanticism and so they become bitter rivals. He opened a teaching school in 1825 in Paris which became very popular. Ingres himself was sought after as a portrait specialist by society.  Famous for his work on female nudes, Ingres went on inspire artists such as Edgar Degas, Renoir and Picasso.


Ingres's style changed very little.and he had firm beliefs that drawing was more important than colour he is quoted as saying "Drawing is not just reproducing contours, it is not just the line; drawing is also the expression, the inner form, the composition, the modelling. See what is left after that. Drawing is seven eighths of what makes up painting."  It is said that he deplored brushstroke that were visible and "made no recourse to the shifting effects of colour and light on which the Romantic school depended.


"Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught." 
                                                                                                 (Eugene Delacroix)

"It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint." 

                                                                                        (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)

             Eugene Delacroix -Study for Liberty               Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

                   Leading the People 1830

"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."

                                                                 (Eugene Delacroix)

"One must keep right on drawing; draw with your eyes when you cannot draw with a pencil."

                                                                                (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)

                Eugène Delacroix - A Naked Woman            Half figure of a Bather nude 

                                                                                  Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

 "Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light."
                                                                                                            (Eugene Delacroix)

"Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue"

                                                                                          (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)

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