A GODDESS BECOMES A PLEBEIAN REVOLUTIONARY

"LIBERTY GUIDES THE PEOPLE," THE MOST ICONIC WORK MADE IN FRANCE  

By Eugène Delacroix, 1830-1831 / Julien Debure

• Her clothes torn off and her breasts bare, the goddess wears the red cap of freed slaves of Antiquity and leads the fight for freedom:

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• Her scandalous underarm makes her real and since almost all the fighting was done by the humble, she has to be underclass:

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It honors the Revolution of 1830, but its symbolism is universal. The goddess...

• Illustrates French history and Parisian insurrections...

French  history summarized at Blois château

 

• ...presents individual revolutionaries... 

  

• ...mobilizes for the present...

Le Monde, January 15 2015

 After the Charlie Hebdo shooting

"Stop the degradation of our environment and protect our planet"

 

Libération, March 4, 2019 / Marc Chomel

The Yellow Vests 

Métro ad for the opening of a branch of the Louvre

General contestation, street art in Belleville

• ...and inspires merch: 

Display at the Louvre  

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She is part of daily life in France...

The opening ceremony included an adaptation...

...and the painting is symbolic elsewhere:

YouTube history of France for an anglophone public

 

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The separation barrier that runs through Bethlehem 

For the cover of a famous American magazine, 

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The goddess's descendants