Meshell Ingram April 14, 2014

“The young tiger playing with its mother”

Information100% hand painted with oils

on canvas Delacroix frequently went with

his friend, the animal sculpter Barye, to see the big game in the Jardin des plantes. But mostly he was content to observe his own cat

It was painted in the 1830It’s a landscape

Elements of art•Space: There is space in between the tigers and the sky, there’s a little space in between the tigers and the trees.•Visual texture: There is visual texture on the tigers because you can see how soft the tigers would be if you could reach out and touch them.

Principles of DesignAsymmetry : There is balance of

unlike objects like the trees and the tigers.

Movement : There’s movement because it looks like the sky is moving.

http://www.eugenedelacroix.org/A-Young-Tiger-Playing-with-its-Mother-1830.html

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/d/delacroi/2/index.html