Reign of Terror

The Reign of Terror began on September 1793 after the death of Louis XVI and went till the fall of Robespierre in 1794. The leader of the Reign of Terror was both George Danton and Maximillien Robespierre, however with the growth of the Reign of Terror, Robespierre gradually became the outright leader. Danton had a strong physical presence and was an incredible public speaker and Robespierre was less passionate. However, Robespierre was a harder worker and he was much more ambitious than Danton. The Reign of Terror was influenced by the Enlightenment ideals, particularly the concepts of popular sovereignty and inalienable rights. This movement played a critical role in shaping modern nations by showing the world the power inherent in the will of the people. One of Robespierre's saying was "Softness to traitors will destroy us all". If anyone happened to say anything critical of the revolutionary government then the people in charge (Robespierre) would come after you and put you in the guillotine. Another of Robespierre's speeches was: "If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatatl;terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, server, inflexible... It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed". However as the Reign of Terror grew even more eventually even Robespierre's supporters began to feel that the Terror must be stopped. The first of Robespierre's supporters who spoke out about the terror ending was put in jail and punished, soon enough though all of the supporters gathered and was executed on July 28, 1794. Robespierre was the last victim in the Reign of Terror.
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Suprematism and Aestheticism

In Edward Jone's painting "The Beguiling of Merlin" he uses Aestheticism in it. The painting is both realistic and detailed. An example that shows that Edward used details is how you can see how realistic and detailed the flowers are in the background and also the pages in the book and how clearly the pages are defined. Unlike Kasimir Malevich's painting where Kasimir used simple shapes and shading, while Edward Jone's picture is very amazing and the shading in the picture actually makes it look as if it is a picture that was taken by a camera instead of something that a artist painted.
Suprematism was an art that focused on the fundamental geometric forms which originated in Russia in the years of 1915-1916. While Aestheticism is 19th century European design style that emphasized aesthetic values. Suprematism is what one artist decided to do to show that there are people who aren't as lucky as the upper-class Victorians. Suprematism is a chain reaction from Aesthetiscm. Aesthetiscim shows the luxuries of the society of the upper-class Victorians. Aestheticism is detailed and very beautiful just as the upper-class Victorians have enough money to buy luxuries that are detailed and make themselves very beautiful, don't forget that the items themselves are also beautiful themselves! Aestheticism shows luxuries, but what morals are shown in it? Nothing. When you see Suprematism paintings such as Kasimir Malevich's painting you can see that life wasn't easy for them, but you see that they keep working and doing it only because that's their life. Suprematism can show what most of the people before and even now have to go through. How many people don't have high luxury? MANY. However, how many people have high luxury? Not very much compared to those who don't. I think during the time period in which these paintings were done, Aesthetiscim was not as popular as the Suprematism paintings only because there were more people who could understand the Suprematism paintings.