Géricault and Delacroix, or the Birth of Revolutionary Romanticism - 2013
BRUNO CHENIQUE
Géricault and Delacroix, or the Birth of Revolutionary Romanticism
For MM. Pascal Cotte and Jean Penicaut, inventors of Lumiere Technology
Théodore Géricault's posthumous destiny has been an unfortunate one. As soon as he died, Eugène Delacroix established himself as a leader and art history has made him the father of Romanticism, forgetting that he was merely its son or grandson (nor should we forget Antoine-Jean Gros). In fact it is Géricault who must be hailed as the true father of French Romanticism and the founder of a modern school that perverted classical imitation. Exploration of the aesthetic and political influence that Géricault had on Delacroix will enable us to understand this more fully.
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