The Death of Marat

The French Revolution started in 1789. After ten years chaos, in 1799, the general Napoleon seized control and, in 1804, proclaimed himself emperor. Though he had tried, failed attempt to unite all of Europe. With the revolution, French artists searched its moral and political purpose as known as Neoclassicists. The other pursued human nature as known as Romanticists. I would like to introduce two paintings from both Neoclassical periods as well as the Romantic to explain how the French…

Jacques-Louis David and His Political Art that Influenced France During March of this year I was fortunate enough to get to go to Paris, France where I visited the Musée Du Louvre. There this was one of the paintings that caught my eye. At the time I was in Art History: Neolithic to Renaissance so I had not gotten to the importance of the painting. But I managed to spend much time just sitting and staring at the painting. Something about this massive painting was fascinating. From the cultural…

French Revolution Feminism Despite the various events that happened during the French Revolution, such as the fall of Bastille, March on Versailles, and the Reign of Terror, women still prevailed and fought for their rights in a sexist and misogynist world. On October 4, 1789, a crowd of women marched towards Versailles demanding bread for their families. Fewer than two years later, in 1791, Marie Gouze, or better known as Olympes de Gouges, proposed a reform platform to the French National…

The French Revolution was not necessary. The French Revolution was a time of death, civil war, lies, and false accusations. There were no great accomplishments and no incredible ideas came out of this time – just useless death and uncalled for punishment. The French did not gain anything from the Revolution and if it never happened, many lives would’ve been spared. The French Revolution began as a simple way for the people to get back at the royalty who had been neglecting them and were…

though these females carried out a multitude of functions. Indeed, women during this era engaged in a diverse array of activities and movements, ranging from dressing in patriotic garb, to writing political documents, to stabbing their enemies to death. However, all of the individual actions taken by these women point toward one primary goal: to use whatever means possible to contribute their ideas to the Revolution. By participating in French society, politics and violence, these women carried…

10/31/16, McAndrew Discussion). Ho Chi Minh was also similar to Jean-Paul Marat, because even though disabled at the time, they still strove to be involved in their cause. While Ho Chi Minh was in prison, he wrote “A Notebook from Prison”, which was a collection of poems that were “a mixture of melancholy, stoicism, and a call for revolution” (Lacouture) which showed his devotion to the Revolution. This was kind of like what Marat did, for he wrote an extremely popular newspaper during the…

rred during the radical period of the French Revolution as a response to the conflict between the Girondins and The Mountains. During this time, the Committee of Public Safety executed thousands of internal “enemies of the revolution” (“Report in the Name,” 47). Although many argue otherwise, The Terror was not a perversion of the original ideals of the revolution because the ideals of the revolution were to gain more equality for the people of France, and the punishments that occurred were…

Art throughout the world reflects new ideas of the time and preserves the past historically marking each new era. A shift in the way the world is organized is almost always immediately followed by a new perspective that changes the way people create and receive art. Art has endless capability to be felt, observed, and examined in new ways that reveal a story behind each piece that weaves another picture of life during that century. Exploring art movements not only reveals the history of the time…

Jean Paul Marat was a radical journalist and politician during the revolution. He fought for basic rights for the commoners of France. Marat was the editor of “L’Ami du Peuple” and used this newspaper as his voice. He urged for more violence and bloodshed and was eventually killed by Charlotte Corday, who opposed many of the…

The French Revolution was a time of violence, chaos, and war. Through it all, one machine of destruction brought fear to almost every human being in France: the guillotine. Despite the bloodshed brought about by this large contraption, there is one person in particular whom the guillotine benefitted by supplying her with limitless heads and bodies. By using these severed body parts, Marie Tussaud created molds of the bodies of those taken by the relentless guillotine and put them on display in…