My artwork is a picture of Napoleon Bonaparte riding a horse. He was Emperor of France during the French Revolution. This style of art was originally realist but then I had edited it and photoshopped it into a cubist style, similar to the styles of the famous Pablo Picasso.

The original artist is Jacques Louis David. He was mostly a realist style painter and has used subjects mostly from the French Revolution and from Roman and Greek times. He was a supporter of the French Revolution in 1789 – 1799, was a supporter of Robespierre and was behind Napoleon Bonaparte both being among the best-known and influential people of the French Revolution. These two people were that supported the murder of Louis XVI, king of France, Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793, Queen of France and the murder of thousands of people.

Jacques Louis David being a supporter of this event is horrific. This shows a very questionable side to his character. Supporting Robespierre caused thousands and thousands of innocent people to be killed and guillotined for no reason at all when all of this was just to restore the balance between the rich and the poor.

The original name of the magnificent artwork is named “Napoleon Crossing the Alps”. This being painted in 1800 by Jacques Louis David after the wars of the French Revolution.

I used the tools from photoshop to edit this portrait. The selection tool was used in a rectangular template. In all the rectangles I created, I changed the contrast, brightness and shading, giving this edited picture more of an effect and look of cubist art.