Liberty Leading the People, it's a picture of Eugene Delacroix. The piece of art was painted in the year 1830 (French Romanticism). This picture is is the maximum expression of the French Revolution.
The canvas represents a scene of the 27 of Julio 1830 in which the people of Paris lifted barricades.
The king Carlos X from France had suppressed the Parliament for ordinance and he had the intention of restricting the freedom of Press.
The initial disturbances became a rising that ended in a revolution continued by angry citizens of all the social classes. An only leader didn't exist. For that reason Delacroix represents to the Freedom as guide that leads to the. Neither this represented in an abstract way, but rather it is a very sensual and real allegorical figure.
The spectator only has two possibilities, uniting to the mass, or being razed by her. The people is the union of classes: it is represented the bourgeois with their top hat and seizing the rifle, to the side a ragged one and a wounded that he requests mercy to France.
To the bottom fog and smoke of the battle that dilute a quite realistic French neighborhood appear. To the feet of the Freedom a moribund one the aim fixedly indicating us that it has been worthwhile to die for her.
The square is exposed in the Museum of the Louvre and it is one of the most important artistic expressions in the history of the art.
Well done! Interesting comments Abel.
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