Tag Archives: Maximilien Robespierre

to be equals among equals

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Dave

Tangled up in the tri-color. Girodet’s portrait of Belley is still a controversial painting whose implications remain pertinent and relevant, embroiled as we are in the same morass that followed the French Revolution.  Girodet was the first artist to cross … Continue reading →

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Napoleon and the revolt agianst togetherness

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Dave

October 1810. The book was censored and then it was banned. So many representations and so much insistence overtaxed his patience. In order to give a definite answer to the petitioners, he took the book up again and lost his … Continue reading →

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AN EMPHASIS ON MORAL AMBIGUITY

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Dave

Eugene Delacroix characterized Jacques Louis David as the founding father of the modern school of art. His challenging of established aesthetic vision,  bold experiments in subject and style, and at the end of his career, mythological compositions that explore complex … Continue reading →

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PAINTING ON THIN ICE

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Dave

During the century that followed Jacques Louis David’s death, three forces struggled for position in French art; classicism, romanticism, and realism. But their initial struggle took place in the art of David. His heroic style, suppressing  passion beneath a hard … Continue reading →

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