Author: Zaidan Art Blog
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04 Works, The Art of War, Maxwell, Donald’s British Navy in Syria, 1st World War, with footnotes
The Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz was a state in the Hejaz region of Western Asia that included the western portion of the Arabian Peninsula that was ruled by the Hashemite dynasty… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE CONSEQUENCES OF WAR, Bernard Duvivier’s Cleopatra Captured by Roman Soldiers, with Footnotes #236
The subject of this painting is a rarely-depicted moment in the story of Antony and Cleopatra. In Plutarch’s Life of Mark Antony, Antony dies of a self-inflicted wound in Cleopatra’s “monument”, a fortified tomb in which the Egyptian queen had barricaded herself. Several of Caesar Augustus’s men, seeking to capture Cleopatra alive, enter the monument…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE ART OF WAR, Arabian Woman by Rawisyah Aditya, with Footnotes #237
The role of women in the military has varied across the world’s major countries throughout history with several views for and against women in combat. Over time countries have generally become more accepting of women fulfilling combat roles. More on Women in combat Rawisyah Aditya is an eminent commercial and travel photographer, Aditya Arya began professional photography in…
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01 Work, The Art of War, William Orpen’s Zonnebeke, with footnotes
Zonnebeke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. In the spring and summer of 1917 Orpen painted the battlefields of the Somme, sometimes at places that had been captured only a short time earlier. Orpen described in a letter the shocking experience of seeing numbers of corpses lying unburied among the flooded shell holes,…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s La Mitrailleuse/ The Machine Gun, with footnotes
Christopher Nevinson identified with the Italian futurist art movement. They celebrated and embraced the speed and efficient power of the modern age. Nevinson’s experience as an ambulance driver in the First World War, however, changed his view of the potential of a mechanised world. In this painting, soldiers fighting in France are reduced to a…
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08 Works, The Art of War, Maxwell, Donald’s British Navy in Lebanon, 1st World War, with footnotes
During WWI, the Middle East was a battleground for various colonial powers, including the Ottoman Empire, Germany, France, and Britain… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The art of War, Jacek Malczewski’s Death, with Footnotes
Death is frequently imagined as a personified force. In some mythologies, a character known as the Grim Reaper, a berobed skeleton wielding a scythe, causes the victim’s death by coming to collect that person’s soul. Other beliefs hold that the spectre of death is only a psychopomp, a benevolent figure who serves to gently sever the…
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01 photograph, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Imad Abu Shtayyah’s We shall return, with Footnotes #100
The painting shows the ruins of Gaza morphing into the torso of a Palestinian woman. This woman – Gaza – is rising to gaze into an expectant sky, body in motion as though she has just picked herself up off the ground. The strength, resilience, and determination communicated by this work are indicative of Abu…
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01 work, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Suleiman Mansour’s The bride of the Homeland (Lina Al-Nabulsi*), with Footnotes #101
On May 15, 1976 a 17-year-old Lina was shot and killed by an IDF soldier while walking home from school in Nablus. According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Israeli authorities stated that a stray bullet hit Lina when a soldier’s rifle went off accidentally. An investigation into the incident was ordered, with IDF forces reiterating their…
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02 Works, The art of War, The Battle of Yarmouk between the army of the Byzantine Empire and the Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate, with Footnotes
The battle consisted of a series of engagements that lasted for six days in August 636, near the Yarmouk River, along what are now the borders of Syria–Jordan and Syria-Israel… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE ART OF WAR, Jens Kohlen’s Elisa Rammstein, with Footnotes #232
Elisa (born Elisa Toffoli on 19 December 1977) is an Italian singer. She sings in several musical genres that go from rock, to the blues, soul and ambient. She recently had a duet with Tina Turner with the song “Teach Me Again” for the film All the Invisible Children which went straight to #1 in Italy.…
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01 photograph, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Hayv Kahraman’s Chained, with Footnotes #97
«I draw inspiration from many of the theoretical and practical feminist ideologies. While I admire the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler, I also believe that collective nonviolent activism plays a fundamental role in changing pre-existing perceptions. My work predominantly consists of representative activism. “It is a powerful instrument of non-verbal expression, and…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Zena Assi’s A Storm is Brewing My Beautiful Refugees, with Footnotes #91
Sold for €31,562.50 in Oct 2021 Themes that are central to Zena Assi’s vision include present-day issues related to countries in the Middle East as they battle with internal strife and civilian unrest. The artist uses various supports and mediums to document and explore the cultural and social changes around her. Her work replicates the…
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01 Work, The art of War, Francesco Hayez’s The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, with Footnotes
After the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, the Jews of the Kingdom of Judea went into exile. In 538 BCE during the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Jews returned to Jerusalem and were able to build the Second Temple on the site of the original one…
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01 photograph, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Shirin Neshat’s Untitled, with Footnotes #97
Sold for GBP 37,250 in Oct 2008 The present photograph belongs to an early series titled ‘Women of Allah’, in which Neshat depicts Islamic women wearing chadors and tattooed inscriptions of decorative patterns, devotional prayers, or poems in Farsi. She uses the Islamic veil to explore and deconstruct stereotypes of Muslim women as oppressed by…
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04 Works, The art of War, Charles de Steuben, Eugène Delacroix and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s Bataille de Poitiers, with Footnotes
Muslim empire reaches its furthest extent. Battle of Tours prevents further advance northwards… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Marwan Sahmarani’s The War of August 22-28, with Footnotes #89
Sold for £10,687.50 in Jun 2019 On August 28, 1997, over 300 people were hacked to death in the village of Rais, about 30 miles south of Algiers, in Algeria. The attack was part of a wave of atrocities committed during fighting between Islamic fundamentalist guerrillas and the Algerian military regime, which had intensified late…
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02 Works, The art of War, Angus McBride’s Egyptian War Chariot in Action, with Footnotes
Chariots were very expensive, heavy and prone to breakdowns, yet in contrast with early cavalry, chariots offered a more stable platform for archers. Chariots were effective for archery because of the relatively long bows used… Please follow link for full post
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