“Mom, let’s stop the city sticking out a chest in pure Delacroix style“: is one of the most sung verses of Rigoberta Bandini’s ‘Ay, mama’ that has swept the Benidorm Fest.
However, not everyone knows the artist’s reference: who was Delacroix and what does the song refer to with its verse ‘get a breast out’?
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix from the French Romantic era of the 19th century. His most famous work, ‘Freedom guiding the people’, shows a woman as a symbol of the 1830 revolution, when the people of Paris rose up against King Charles X for restricting freedom of the press.
Delacroix’s ‘Liberty’ is a woman who, wearing the usual clothing of the time corrupted by a breast protruding from her dress, guide the people to liberalism holding the french flag with his right hand.
The reference of the Catalan artist makes clear praise of the figure of the woman empowered, serving as a beacon and guiding citizens while refusing to hide her breasts.
Source: Lasexta
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