Anisa

In contrast to the [|Neoclassical] perfectionism of his chief rival [|Ingres], Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of [|Rubens] and painters of the Venetian [|Renaissance], with an attendant emphasis on color and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modeled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic.[|[2]] Friend and spiritual heir to [|Théodore Géricault], Delacroix was also inspired by [|Byron], with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in often violent action.[|[3]] However, Delacroix was given neither to sentimentality nor bombast, and his Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of [|Baudelaire], "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible."[|[4]]
 * 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.[|[1]] 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].