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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

visual research, Eugene Delacroix, contemporary art, art waxes

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Art

Abstract

The paintings of Eugene Delacroix show an exception power and emotion. Delacroix uses the human figure and color in order to express emotion. There continues to be an important place for the use of representation of the human figure in contemporary art. This is through the expressive quality that avails itself through use of the figure. Though the widespread popularity of the human figure in art waxes and wanes there continues to be a need filled by the figure. The representation varies widely from traditional academic accurate representation to an abstracted form to an even more distanced use with contemporary video work making reference to a human form. Through my own work I have found the need to implement the figure. This is because the human figure instills a response in the viewer, the representation of another human supplies a connection to the broader world. My desire to study Delacroix came because he was a master of using the figure in order to express different emotions and initiate responses. Although through the research took me beyond the use of the figure and into color, the human figure is what initiated and drove my work.

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