Liberty Leading the People, by Eugene Delacroix, was painted in 1830. The liberty of the people is depicted as a “barefoot and bare breasted” woman because that is how the people lived everyday life (Liberty Leading the People). The people were poor and starved and this caused a revolution. This painting was meant to evoke emotion in the people and make a statement towards revolution. With the people taking over France this was seen as a very patriotic painting and became Delacroix’s masterpiece.
The style of the painting is very romantic because it evokes emotion in the people of France. The painting represents every social class by having the young man with a top hat from the upper class on the left of the “liberty” and a child with two pistols from the middle/ lower class. The painting is meant to inspire all of the people of France by showed their liberty standing up to fight with the tricolor flag (Liberty Leading the People). This was a very inspirational painting for the revolution.
The proletariat comes together and takes what they owned all along. The people use their strength in numbers and determination that they acquired throughout many years of poverty, to rise up and assume control. The French people had the right idea, but they took the revolution too far and became blood drunk. This is the problem that all revolutions face. People cannot control themselves when they acquire power and they become just like the people they worked so hard to take the power from.
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