Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (Eugene Delacroix),

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[...] More contemporary to Delacroix was Francisco Goya, who is well known for his use of broad brush strokes in The Third of May to convey a sense of solidity. Turner also used a broad style, and even much more than Goya was interested in using the technique to convey a sense of motion. Delacroix seems to have perfected this technique and created a veritable moving picture on canvas. Unfortunately major interest in this technique seems to have died with Delacroix. [...]

[...] Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (Eugene Delacroix), Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (Eugene Delacroix), a French painter, lived from 1789-1863. This work, Lion Hunt oil on canvas, was painted in 1858. Lion Hunt is filled with colors that scream of the vibrancy of nature, action that fascinates the eye, and themes that excite the soul. If a one line summary of this painting had to be given the provenance at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston should be quoted for the concise and apt line, "Swirling around the central figure of the embattled lioness, the composition draws its dynamism from the passionate color and expressive turbulence of Delacroix's innovative style."[1] Every figure in this painting is a confusion of turbulence, straining all around each other, but never making contact with anything. [...]

[...] The scene is simply a bunch of fellows out for a hunt, but because of the exotic setting and the treatment of the subject Delacroix raises it to a higher level. The execution of this work manages to show the majesty of nature and of nature's animals as well as the camaraderie and valor of the human subjects. The solitary struggle of the man in the foreground is a blisteringly powerful representation of the power that mankind has to overcome adversity. [...]