Jacques Louis David Historical Event Oil Painting

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Jacques Louis David Historical Event Oil Painting
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The death of Marat was created by Jacques Louis
David in 1794. The death of Marat depicted the
historical event that the French revolutionary
Mara was killed in the bathtub. The painter
employed the realistic approach to reappear
the miserable situation of the assassination.
Marat fell in the bathtub, stabbed wounds
were apparently, the blood had incarnadined
the towels and the liquid in the bathtub. The
hand that holding
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the quill fell outside the bathtub, the
other hand held the letter that
the murderer gave him tightly. The female
assassin-Charlotte Cole utilized the sympathy
Marat had for her and murdered him while he was
unprepared. We can also see the bleeding weapon
on the floor.
There was a big wooden platform next to the
bathtub, it seemed that this was the working
place of him. There were ink, quill pen, paper
money and a note that he had just finished
which said that "Please give these 5
francs to a mother of five children, her
husband sacrificed his life for our country".
Jacques-Louis David put the protagonist in
a certain plot and scene which enriched the
contents and infections of the portraiture.
The painter depicted the upper half into a simply
and dark effect intentionally in order to
highlight the objective realistic effect of the
lower half. This work expressed the depressed,
grieved and suffering feelings that the shocking
and indignant murder event brought to people.
It was said that David rushed to the scene two
hours later after Marat was stabbed to death,
and he was shocked by the miserable scene, so he
decided to record this tragic historical scene
with his painting brush.
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