Death of marat is a canvas painting created by Jacques Louis David, the founder of French neoclassicism school, in 1793, and is now in the Royal Belgian Art Museum.

Death of marat deliberately created a space for the poor. In the closed and narrow shack, Mara collapsed in the bathtub, with a pen in one hand and a bloody letter in the other. The first half of the oil painting is loose and messy, which may be a wall or just a vague space, representing eternal nothingness, but the rough and simple wooden box serving as a desk seems to tell the virtue of Mara.

Death of marat was written in a turbulent, bloody and great period of change in French history. France under Louis XVI was in crisis. As usual, the trigger of this disaster is the financial crisis. France prides itself on supporting American independence, but financial constraints forced the king to raise taxes on the people.

The people in death of marat are beautified by their patriotic feelings of kindness, integrity and selflessness. The color of skin is like cold stone, and the wound on Mara is striking and meticulous, just like the wound on Jesus on the cross. At this time, Mara seems to have the personality charm of Jesus, and the whole painting is full of sad beauty.

It seems to have the meaning of religious worship, which is super convincing. The calm and firm body seems to indicate that Mara is not dead. The painter created a hero who is dead but still alive forever. And fill in the touching content for Mara's stationery. This kind of artistic creation is to create a saint-like horse-drawn horse, which causes the viewers who don't know the truth to hate the assassin.

The brushwork is solid and powerful, depicting the scene of jacobins leader Mara's assassination with realistic brushwork. The gloomy picture is full of tragedy, expressing a shocking historical moment and reflecting a real revolutionary era with passion and ideals, bloodshed and death. In the skill of shaping Mara's image as a saint, David painted Mara's overall posture.

Especially the drooping arm, skillfully connects the viewer's feeling with the impression of Jesus Christ under the cross. As a Catholic country, the image of Jesus Christ under the cross exists in every corner of the Catholic world through famous or unknown painters, and great painters such as Raphael have had similar performances.

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1February 9, 825) was a French painter, the founder of the classicism school, an art educator, and his students included Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, representatives of neoclassicism. The painting style is rigorous and the technique is exquisite.

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/kloc-Charles pierre baudelaire, a French modernist poet and critic in the 20th century, thought that marat's death was not pedantic and mediocre, but had a soft mood and a fascinating power at the same time. This painting is a thrilling drama. The very strong expressive force makes this work one of the wonders of modern art.

Death of marat's oil paintings are only collected by Brussels Museum in 1893. It is now in the Royal Museum of Art in Belgium. From 65438 to 0982, death of marat was exhibited in Beijing, China together with the 250-year French Art Exhibition.

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