Question

Why did French artist Frederic sorrieu prepare a series of prints based on democratic and socialist republics in 1848?

Answer 1

Hint: La République universelle démocratique et sociale was the name of the book meaning, The universe of democratic and social republic.

Complete answer:
1)Frederic Sorrieu was a French artist. In the year 1848, he prepared a series of four prints in which he visualised his dream of a world made up of democratic and Social Republics.

2)Frederic Sorrieu was a French engraver, printmaker, and draughtsman.
He was renowned for his works that testified liberal and nationalist revolutions in France and in Europe.

3)He was born on 17th January, 1807 in Paris France and died on 25th September, 1887 at the age of 80 in Seine-port, France.

4)Some of his very famous works were:
a)La République universelle démocratique et sociale
b)Le Suffrage universel dédié à Ledru-Rollin

5)The first print depicts the people of Europe and America marching in a long train where they pass by a statue of liberty, paying the sculpture their homage.

6)Statue of liberty was imagined to be a female sculpture with a torch of enlightenment in one hand along with the charter of the rights of man in the other hand.

7)On the earth in the foreground like the shattered remains of the symbol of absolutist institutions.

Note: Frederic Sorrieu believed that from the heavens above, Christ, saints and angels gaze upon the scene. These symbols have been used by the artist to symbolise fraternity among the nations of the world.