New York City artist Ron Maubidea is currently working on a new series of portraits for his upcoming show in Connecticut titled, The New Wave of Abstract Automatism.
His striking portrait of Charlotte Corday (Dreams of the Revolution ~ Virgin Death in Paris) is a fusion of 17th-century French classicist sensibility and depraved isolationism, a common condition amongst the inmates of Charenton Asylum. The image reflects her repugnance for the likes of the Marquis de Sade and Jean-Paul Marat, a radical journalist and proponent of a period known as The Reign of Terror.
Beginning in September 1793 and ending in July 1794, as many as 40,000 people (enemies of the revolution) were executed or guillotined for which she held Marat directly responsible. In a dream, both the Marquis and Marat get their “just rewards” as they pleasure and feed from Charlotte’s derriere.
The inspiration for the piece was the 1963 play by Peter Weiss, (The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade) which in 1967 was adapted for the screen as Marat/Sade.
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont was found guilty for the stabbing death of Marat and executed under the guillotine on 17 July 1793 in Paris, France.
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- Galerie de Maubidea
- I have been a working artist for most of my life. At different stages, the work has taken the form of Music, writing Short Stories and Fiction, Public Television Director and the Visual Arts.