The Age of Romanticism

The Age of Romanticism

Introduction

Eugene Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People was based on the French revolution war which was also known as the July revolution it was sought to over throw king Charles X of France because they were objective to the ideal to form a new ministry which Charles X   had directed Jules Armand de Polignac to do. the new ministry would return them to the Ancient   Regime refers primarily to the aristocratic, social, and political systems   established in France under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties (14th century to the 18th century)   the term is French for formal regime but rendered in English as old rule (Ancien Regimes, 2009, ¶ 1)
And under the old rule the people of France did not have a voice   which means they had to follow whatever rules the government of   has set before them it was time for   a change which also included   the middle class wanting more voice in the government, France was   also in a recession and 64,000 Parisians did not have any stable employment they were independent either in crime or charity an evasion of Algeria in many of 1830 aimed at distracting the population from its   domestic problems was unsuccessful in that task.(Oberhofer, 2009, p. 275-292)
Eugene Delacroix tries to gives us an ideal of the many events that took place on that day.  
                                            Shades and tones
In this painting Delacroix used darker tones to bring out The brightness of the clouds which clearly brings out the main focus of the painting which is lady liberty the staff that she holds signifies her fight for freedom her torn dress and bare breast was probably the artist indication of how she was able lour her enemies in by attraction

                                                  Freedom
The dead soldiers represents the lives that was lost these soldiers died for something that they believed in there were many whom have died in a war in which they were fighting for freedom there...