La liberté est née dans la rue !

Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix is an iconic artwork of universal heritage which is regularly reinterpreted by street artists for its symbolic value. The strength of its message as well as its plastic qualities makes this artwork so modern.

Historical artwork painted after the revolutionary days of July 27, 28, and 29, 1830, then called “The Glorious Three”, Liberty Leading the People is also a political work. By making his heroine wave the tricolor flag, Eugène Delacroix takes the side of the new regime, that of the constitutional monarchy of Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, King of the French, symbolically renouncing the white flag of the Bourbons to adopt that created by the French Revolution, thus promising to reconnect with its ideals.

Street scene made of barricades and revolt, Liberty leading the people shows the people of Paris in their diversity - craftsmen, workers, bourgeois... - guided by the allegorical figure of Liberty represented by a woman dressed in an ancient robe, like a profane goddess descended from a secular Olympus to lead the people to victory.

Nearly two centuries later, urban art has taken over this national masterpiece kept in the Louvre Museum to divert it, update it, put it on the streets... thus helping making it universal.

This NFT collection invites you to discover a series of street artists from the international scene who have appropriated this Liberty for a contemporary, political but also poetic and even humorous rewriting.

Thus, Mr Dheo, Zag & Zia, Clet, Andrea Ravo Mattoni, Kan and Jo di Bona reveal their personal interpretation of this masterpiece while offering us a panorama of urban art today. in the diversity of its techniques, styles and intentions.

Composed of HD images of the work, sketches or WIP photos as well as interviews with the artists explaining their approach, these NFTs allow unprecedented, unique and exclusive access to a part of contemporary urban creation.