Jacques Louis-David was a painter that I thoroughly dislike. He was a painter that admired putting people to be executed by guillotine, but when the time came for him to be executed he plead that he was only a painter following the big bad men of the dictatorship that was known as the French Revolution. He painted for a cause while other famous painters did it for the credit. He also made the characters of his paintings more pure and understandable, but only if they were characters that he had befriended in the Revolution. David’s paintings were also more life-like then some of the other painters’ paintings. Van Gogh made paintings that the brush strokes were most times obvious. They were what made the painting so unconventionally beautiful.