Introduction to “Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art”

Excellent lecture at the National Gallery on their current Delacroix exhibition given by James Heard.

James did a good job at setting Delacroix in the context of his time talking about the two fashionable styles of Romanticism represented by Delacroix and Classicism as shown by Ingres. He talked us though some of the Delacroix pictures in the show telling us what was different about them before looking at how he influenced later artists.

He was particularly interesting on the fact that some of the influences came from Delacroix’s writings on art and he explained this well using some of the works in the last room.