Jaques-Louis David         The story of modern art begins with Jaques-Louis David. He became a dictator of the arts and designed huge propagandas. He painted such pieces as, The Oath of the Horatii that was aclaimed in Rome and aseries of sensational paintings. David painted figures are parallel to the picture-plane. Each stroke of his brush or pencil occuples an unambiguously defined spatial position, which has won him the Prize of Prix de Rome [Canaday 7]. He …showed first 75 words of 583 total…

…showed last 75 words of 583 total…wanted them to teach and to let people learn through his art.         David offers the best starting point for a story of modern art, not because he was the earliest classicist but because he is alone in the severity, the purity of his demonstration of neoclassical doctrine [Smith 6]. He represented the story of modern art in the way that the French Revolution, he changed the which people looked and were influnced by art [Art Dictionary].