Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat (1793)

I love and hate this painting. But then again my inner - and pseudo-  Art Historian tells me to love it more than hate it. While the history geek side of me tells me to completely hate it.

The French revolution did quite fail and Marat was a sadist asshole. However, the monster that Jacques-Louis David was did manage to paint something quite nice to look at. I have mixed feelings, sorry.

See this was a great publicity stunt. The marketing of Marat’s death plus the decapitation of Marie Antoinete - which happened, both, on the same day - lead France to believe in lies. Lies of a republic and a better life. Marat was placed as the Jesus of a humanitarian cause whose pieta claims to emphasize modernism.

Marat, as said, was a sadist asshole who wanted to decapitate his enemies and all those who were politically confused at that time. He was no martyr. Yet, this piece by David has been replaced with modern imagery by new artists who give the piece a new meaning regardless of the its fake statement.

I will even go ahead and claim that street art uses some of the same fake statements David and his revolutionary fellows used for Marat’s posthumos portrait. But then again that is a rant I will save for a later time.

Jacques-Louis David

I wish someone would make a movie of Jacques-Louis David.

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