The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Louvre’s exhibition of French Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix has arrived in the United States. It opened in September at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and will stay until January. The exhibition has the ability to bring to mind, memories, and emotions for those attempting to comprehend the vulnerabilities and difficulties of daily life. In the exhibition, I tuned in on other visitors talking about Eugene Delacroix’s artistic creations. They discussed their magnificence and energetic colors. But they additionally discussed the pictures they portrayed. Scenes of oppression and political change, of opposition, chaos and refugees. It almost seemed as if they were discussing the present.One of the most interesting paintings is Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863).

Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother, this popular painting is a flat-out work of art. It causes me to have a sudden feeling of excitement and pleasure. The two tigers are similar in size, so I don't know why they are mother and child maybe his fun-loving nature and her patient resistance. The label says something with which I am unable to agree with: "the nobility of the mother’s pose suggests analogies between the animal kingdom and humanity." Nobility and humanity in the same sentence are rather oxymoronic. Since when are we better behaved than the animals? Also, we should remember we are a part of the animal kingdom.I am not typically a cat person but all I see is the way the eyes are in the wrong position and that the upper thighs are too long, yet then again it’s impressive Delacroix got so much right. I doubt there were tigers wherever in France. He most likely studied on a stuffed one or maybe one at a circus. In any case, he likely couldn't study them often, so you must give him credit. In this painting, you can see the expressiveness of Delacroix's brushstrokes which cover the surface with interesting blobs of color.Another interesting painting I saw is Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863).

Women of Algiers in Their Apartment. For this painting he took a visit to a woman’s room in a Muslim home, it depicts four women arranged casually in loose patterned clothing, surrounded by lavishly colored carpets and shining items, like the hookah pipe one woman holds. It depicts three extravagantly dressed women relaxing on luxurious carpets and pillows with one woman who appears to be walking away while taking a glance back. The women in the painting seem to be positioned to look steady and intensely in thought, which is not often depicted in paintings of this era. However, the sense of willpower in these women is a nice change in a time where such a large number of women were merely presented for display.The painting is a strikingly beautiful and impressive work of art. A smile spreads across my face when standing before "Ladies of Algiers in their Apartment." The large, horizontal painting, takes you inside a shadowy room, where three women sit next to each other on the floor, perhaps smoking hash, and another woman shows up in a different part of the room.

There is no obvious association between any of the women, and not a lot is occurring here. Wearing dresses, arm bracelets, and jewelry, they are arranged together around a sparkling hookah. The plain inside is set apart by a mirror, fancy tiles, carpets, velvet cushions, slippers, and a standing figure moving. At first I thought this might be a slave, although this is not clear. Sophisticated jewelry is seen all around and on the woman in the center who wears a hanging watch. So these aren't simple people, they're wealthy people.What do the Met curators hope the viewer to see when you take a look at a Delacroix? Fluffiness, smears, and quivering paint strokes. Something that makes his paintings so unusual is that there's no order in them by any means. Instead, he's consistently improvising with paint, changing it up as he goes, blending paint, and basically mixing strokes of complementary colors that combine to make more intense colors. Also, the things he painted lived in vulnerability, starvation, or confusion. Experiencing struggle was a daily occurrence in their lives. Delacroix painted them in a dramatic way, changed it from a smooth, flat painting and did it in rougher, looser, strongly colored paint blends that had never been seen before.