Popular Art...

Recently the popgroup Coldplay, one of the biggest popacts in the world - released their latest album: "Viva La Vida - Or Death & All His Friends". On the cover of their CD you'll find Delacroix' painting "Liberty Leading The People" - (La Liberté Guidant Le Peuple) from 1830. It is wonderful to see his vibrant covers used in such a way since the bands music is quite as good as Delacroix' art. Of course, one should never compare the arts, but perhaps it is inevitable. Music is as fluent as colours. The make grand use of our imagination...

The painting, which many believe is about the French Revolution of 1789, deals in fact about the July Revolution of 1830 when King Charles X was overthrown and his cousin Louis-Philippe I took his place. This powershift marked the change in France from one constitutional monarchy to another (Bourbon Restoration).