Revolutionary Art

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This paper presents a critical analysis of the artists, Meissonier, Delacroix and Goya. The paper explains that they were not only realists, but also patriots and people's artists, as the theme of people took a central place in most of their works. The paper examines three art pieces: Francisco Goya's "The Third of May 1808," Eugene Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People 1830" and Ernest Meissonier's "Memory of the Civil War (the Barricades) 1849", which show people in the turning point of country's history. Through these pieces of art, the paper explores the horror, tragedy, humanism and optimism of three revolutions.

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"Nineteenth century in Europe was a century of changes in political, economical and social structure of society. The course of events was often too sudden for society, oppressed by absolutism of reigned monarchy, to react adequately so it had no other way but only to revolt. France, Spain and other European countries had suffered a long warfare of Napoleon's invasions, they were tired of unbearable social injustice and poverty and so the unrest of society often turned into a legal right of the nation to determine its destiny by revolution. In Spain it was a revolt against the regime of Napoleon who invaded the country and wanted to establish imperial order on its territory. France on the other hand had experienced a set of bloody revolutions and restorations of monarchy starting from 1789."

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