Lesson 3: Film 8- David/Schama

 - Ask and answer 1 question about David that directly relates to his artmaking.

- Who is Jacques-Louis David, what kind of artist was Jacques-Louis David,  and what was his influence in terms of his artwork?

- Jacques-Louis David is a French painter in the Neoclassical style, born on August 30th, 1748 in Paris France and passed away on December 29th, 1825 in Brussels, Belgium at the age of 77, he died due to an unchecked spread of adenocarcinoma of the parotid gland. David is considered to be an artist in the Neoclassicism, making his work in France during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, making paintings, using sculpted forms and polished surfaces.


- Ask and answer 1 question that directly relates to Schama’s presentation of David.

- How did Schama describe David, his life, his artwork, and his art style as a whole throughout the film?

- Schama stated that David was a struggling artist and his artwork was rejected four times. When David got more successful with his artwork, he got more intelligent followers. David was also responsible for making the Tennis Court Oath painting, which shows the atonal Assembly swearing not to stop meeting until France had a constitution. David was also involved in the French Revolution as a leading member of the Committee of Public Instruction, also painting The Death of Marat as well.

- Ask and answer 1 question about the relationship between Schama’s film and David’s paintings.

- How did Schama’s film explore more about David and his time as an artist and his life as a whole?

- Throughout the film, Schema was going through different art museums that displayed the works that David made. He started explaining a bit more about his life in France as an artist, and events in France that occurred as well. There were also live action reenactments of events that happened throughout the film as well, like the balloon incident, the Tennis Court Oath, and The French Revolution. This gave the watcher a good visual look of what happened back in the day as well.


The Death of Socrates
Jacques-Louis David

Source used:


https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jldv/hd_jldv.htm#:~:text=David%20championed%20a%20style%20of,were%20intended%20as%20moral%20exemplars.




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