Paintings have presented much to think about in recent times, following tumultuous decisions and events. People have begun to engross themselves in art, connecting with the raw emotion that many art pieces express.
One such example is Jacques-Louis David’s “Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons.” As Kelsey Ables from The Washington Post explains, “so often women, like those in ‘The Lictors,’ are the ones doing the protecting—by bearing the emotional burden for everyone else” in response to news about mothers of shooting victims and calls to protect women and children during the war in Ukraine.
Ables states that, in the face of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the women in the painting “made giving one’s body over to anger, shock and grief look not weak, but brave.” The three women embody what women all over America have felt or are feeling after the law restricting abortion was made official, expressing emotion that may seem melodramatic at first. However, “through the act of feeling, they seemed to claim their bodies as their own,” protesting against the law.
David’s painting is on display in the Louvre.
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/07/08/grieving-women-paris-painting/
One such example is Jacques-Louis David’s “Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons.” As Kelsey Ables from The Washington Post explains, “so often women, like those in ‘The Lictors,’ are the ones doing the protecting—by bearing the emotional burden for everyone else” in response to news about mothers of shooting victims and calls to protect women and children during the war in Ukraine.
Ables states that, in the face of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the women in the painting “made giving one’s body over to anger, shock and grief look not weak, but brave.” The three women embody what women all over America have felt or are feeling after the law restricting abortion was made official, expressing emotion that may seem melodramatic at first. However, “through the act of feeling, they seemed to claim their bodies as their own,” protesting against the law.
David’s painting is on display in the Louvre.
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/07/08/grieving-women-paris-painting/
