abstract:Liberty Leading the People () is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the flag of the French Revolution – the tricolor flag which is still France's flag today – in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other.
Among the highlights will be Wang Keping's 1979 wooden sculpture of a man being strangled, "Chain, " and Yue Minjun's "Liberty LeadingthePeople, " his 1995 nod to Eugene Delacroix's revolutionary tableaux from 1830.