Marat Assassinated (1794)
I'm not a huge fan of Neoclassic painting,( in that particular moment in art history I prefer the romanticism, that was a parallel art movement ) but I do like some of the paintings.
This one, makes my eyes travel silently trough the image, grasping the details, the mood, the light, the meaning.
Marat and David, were close friends, and both were active performers in the French Revolution. Marat was seen like a cruel man. He was one of the leaders of the Jacobins, a faction of the French Revolution, that had part on the blood bath that was the period called “Reign of Terror ( la Terreur ) “, a period of 10 months of mutual radicalization between opposing factions, with mass executions by the guillotine.
This was in the end of XVIII century, and was a sign of what totalitarianism and tyrannism could do, and how the power of words ( the power that Marat used so well ) can be so effective on both good and bad things. Yet in the end, David portrayed is last moment, with a good attention to detail following the police report, in a heroic and beautiful moment, a man that gave everything for is beliefs.
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