The Death of Marat - Jacques-Louis David

The Death of Marat, by Jacques-Louis David. Music - Dante's Prayer by Loreena McKennitt.

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• death
• marat
• art
• oil
• painting
• jacques
• louis
• david
• sade
• loreena
• mckennitt
• dante
• prayer

[plutogirllovekj]

Marat was a psychopath whose skin was marked and diseased, he looked nothing like this idealized saint. As for Jacques Louis David, he was a brilliant artist but also a sychophantic weasle, more than willing to churn out propaganda for the despotic leaders of the French Revolution. He ultimately cared not one iota about Enligthenment ideals, but rather was concerned only about his own skin.

[plutogirllovekj]

Beautiful painting, disgusting subject!! Marat deserved a lot worse than what Charlotte Corday dished out on that faithful day! Marat was basically the precursor for Goebbels. His hands were stained with the blood of men, women and even children. He was certainly not un ami du peuple!! At least not the people who dared to have a different outlook to his! One cannot help but admire David's work, he was a genius, unfortunately he was also a Sychophantic SOB.

[zoeydebra]

This is a great painting like the works of Goya and Rembrandt. I remember agonizing in my art class trying to compare and contrast this art work with another painting for college exams. You never forget!

[TheEmperorCho]

@plutogirllovekj He even looked like Goebbels!

[StarQualityWins]

He looked like a rhinocerous.

[lilugon]

penture Luis david est beau que j´aimele plus et Robespierre dans la sale avec leurs mains la poitrine! il se suicide!!

[Yaara1115]

You state these things so easily... :)

I'm not saying it's not true, but you can't know it is... instead of judging history, why not just trying to understand each side? much more fun :)

[plutogirllovekj]

The facts are clear, Robespierre and his fellows began the French revolution espousing enlightenment ideals, but as the saying goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely!!! They became drunk with power and grew into despots responsible for the Reign of Terror!!

[plutogirllovekj]

Actually France did enslave many people, just not on it's shores, instead they took their slaves to their colonies in the Caribbean far away from "polite' French society. It seems to be a myth perpetuated by many Europeans, who like to point the accusatory finger at America, that their hands are clean from the dirty business of slavery, when Spain, Portugal, Britain and France all profited mightily from that bloody commerce. Not to mention their colonies in Africa itself!!

[Yaara1115]

As to the way you say enlightenment ideals acted like - that depends. You can't compare it to our days - change can't happen over night, especially not a cultural one, which is the hardest kind of change - but still, they tried. I think they should get some respect for that.

[Yaara1115]

lol I didn't know that - but it doesn't matter, anyways. If every western country besides the US would slave its people, do you think the US would fight so hard for its people rights? Even so, it did affect you, the revolution let to a struggle over women rights. Even if it didn't affect you at all, I still think it's disrespectful to people who basically just wanted to live properly. I don't think that you or anyone else has a right to judge them-we don't know what it's like to have no rights.