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Delacroix provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 16 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

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16 hours worth of material
Self Paced
Overview

  • In this free course, Delacroix, you will be introduced to a variety of Delacroix's work and will see how his paintings relate to the cultural transition from Enlightenment to Romanticism. You will...

Syllabus

    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Overview
    • 1 Overview
    • 1.1 Delacroix’s background
    • 1.2 Ideas and influences
    • 2 The Death of Sardanapalus
    • 2 The Death of Sardanapalus
    • 2.1 Inspiration for the Death of Sardanapalus
    • 2.2 Sardanapalus – subject and composition
    • 2.3 A passionate reaction
    • 2.4 Controversial colour and composition – exercise
    • 2.5 Neoclassical – the established style
    • 2.6 An alternative deathbed tradition
    • 2.7 Interpreting the classical form
    • 2.8 Colour and light – exercise
    • 2.9 Painterly techniques
    • 2.10 Colour versus line
    • 2.11 Birth of the ‘Romantic’
    • 3 Delacroix – classic or Romantic?
    • 3 Delacroix – classic or Romantic?
    • 3.1 A classical education
    • 3.2 The influence of Géricault and Gros
    • 3.3 A Baroque influence
    • 3.4 Neoclassical and the Baroque – a delicate balance
    • 3.5 The Barque of Dante – innovation within tradition
    • 3.6 Massacres of Chios – challenging the establishment
    • 3.7 Massacres of Chios – a critical stir
    • 3.8 Transcending the Romantic-classic divide
    • 3.9 Delacroix’s early career – exercise
    • 4 The Romantic artist and the creative process
    • 4 The Romantic artist and the creative process
    • 4.1 The Romantic aesthetic
    • 4.2 Imagination and inspiration
    • 4.3 Delacroix – sensitivity and suffering
    • 4.4 Revealing the inner being – exercise
    • 4.5 The soul and sensitivity
    • 4.6 From Enlightenment to Romantic thinking
    • 5 Romantic themes and subjects in Delacroix’s art
    • 5 Romantic themes and subjects in Delacroix’s art
    • 5.1 Sardanapalus – a disconcerting subject
    • 5.2 Sardanapalus – passion and futility
    • 5.3 The popular Gothic
    • 5.4 A taste for the grotesque
    • 5.5 The Gothic, the grotesque and artistic expression
    • 5.6 Modernity – challenging tradition
    • 5.7 Extremes of modernity
    • 5.8 Delacroix’s modernity – the historical context
    • 5.9 A reaction to the bourgeois establishment
    • 5.10 Features of French Romantic art and artists – exercise
    • 6 The Oriental and the exotic
    • 6 The Oriental and the exotic
    • 6.1 Oriental literature
    • 6.2 A sense of sumptuous hedonism
    • 6.3 Western perceptions – Oriental stereotypes
    • 6.4 Recasting the Turkish identity
    • 6.5 Romanticising the Oriental
    • 6.6 Delacroix – exoticism and animal energy
    • 6.7 Delacroix – Orientalism and personal identity
    • 7 Conclusion
    • 7 Conclusion
    • Glossary
    • References
    • Acknowledgements

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