30 August 2021

Happy Birthday, David

David, Napoleon Bonaparte, 1798


Jacques-Louis David was born on this day in 1748.
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this – and only this – is to be an artist. 

Jacques-Louis David
The David episode from Simon Schama's masterpiece, Power of Art ...

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