after: ʻLA MORT DE MARATʼ, Jacques Louis David - 1793, Musée des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium. Jacques Louis David (1748-1825) combines classical themes with dramatic light settings. As the artist became involved with the French revolution his style became more consciously realist. ʻLe mort de Maratʼ shows a fellow revolutionary killed in his bathtub. Davidʼs painting was considered very shocking at the time: a macabre scene painted graphically. It suggests compassion toward a friend and outrage at the act of murder.
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after: ʻI KNOW HOW YOU MUST FEEL, BRADʼ, Roy Lichtenstein - 1963, Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany.
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was an American artist of the 1960ʼs Pop Art movement. Lichtenstein took comic characters from popular culture appropriating and inflating isolated sections of cartoons and turned them into works of art.
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after: ʻPHYSICIAN VISITING A SICK GIRL’, Gabriel Metsu - 1767, Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) was one of the genre painters of the Dutch Golden Age of painting, a period during which the Catholic Church fell away as a client to be replaced by the new rich who, in wanting their houses decorated, offered a whole new area of subjects for exploration. A painter often specialised in a ʻgenreʼ and painted practically all his life the same kind of scenes. Famous genre painters are Hendrick Avercamp, who painted winter scenes all year round and Jan Joseph van Goyen, who specialised in skies. Often the subjects painted could be subjects of everyday life but with a moralistic message hidden within them.
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A special thanks to James Colman for his support, original ideas and help.