The section entitled "Romanticism and Reality" consists of a series of tableaux inspired by the well known french painter Eugène Delacroix, whose second centenary was celebrated in 1998. It follows his path "from the cradle to the grave" - i.e. from the artist's first creative impulses and his early years as a budding Romantic and his travels in Morocco, to the years of fame and success, and finally the declining years and the ageing man's growing awareness of death.

Through all these periods Delacroix is driven by the need to paint. As a vocation and a passion, a challenge and a struggle, a duty and a gift, and also as a neverending dialogue with literature, mythology, religion and the contemporary world. But always as a feast of colour for the eye.

From cradle to grave then we follow the artist's "lifelines", physically symbolised by two thick cords, one red and one white, which link the tableaux together. These represent on the one hand the restrained passion and on the other the highly individual and sensitive intellect of this unique personality. At the end, like a celebration, comes the transcendence of death, in which the body falls away allowing the soul to take flight and obtain its freedom. In a tower of fragile aspect, Delacroix meets his friends and contemporaries, freed from their earthly burdens.




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Paris-Morocco-Turm