Link to The power of art: Jacques Louis David documentary
Documentary Description
When the arch-denouncer and violent journalist
Jean-Paul Marat, the 'friend of the people', is stabbed in his bath in
July 1793, Jacques-Louis David – painter for the Revolution - promises
to make an image of the martyr, for France and for the world. And so he
does, creating an altarpiece for the new church of Liberty, Equality
and Fraternity.It is the work of a fantastic propagandist. Marat the
fanatic is transformed into Marat the pure and selfless. Art has
become, irreversibly, the accomplice of power.