Category: Art
-
01 Mural, The art of War, Picasso Massacre in Korea, with footnotes
In the middle of a desolate landscape, with the ruins of destroyed buildings in the background, the drama of war against the civilian population: six soldiers are about to shoot a group of women and children. The military is portrayed as heartless robots, half-dressed with pieces of metal and helmets, while the innocent victims, naked,…
-
02 Paintings, The art of War, Eugène Delacroixand Patrick Caulfield ‘s Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, with footnotes
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi is an 1826 oil painting by French painter Eugène Delacroix, and now preserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. This painting was inspired by the Third Siege of Missolonghi by the Ottoman forces in 1826… Please follow link for full post
-
01 Painting, The art of War, Clive Branson’s Blitz: Plane Flying, with footnotes
Blitz: Plane Flying is a surreal depiction of a working-class London street during the devastating air raids which lasted from September 1940 until January 1941. Branson was then living in Battersea which was affected by the nightly raids. The air raid shelter positioned in front of one of the houses is an indication of the imminent…
-
01 Mural, The art of War, Picasso’s Guernica, with footnotes
On Monday, 26 April 1937, warplanes of the Nazi Germany Condor Legion, commanded by Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, bombed Guernica for about two hours. In his 30 April 1937 journal entry von Richthofen noted that when the squadron arrived “there was smoke everywhere” from the attack by three aircraft, and since nobody could see the…
-
01 Painting, The art of War, Clive Branson’s bombed Women and Searchlights, with footnotes
Bombed Women and Searchlights was painted in response to the London Blitz which began in September 1940. Branson was then living in Battersea where he would have witnessed at first hand the devastating air raids. In this painting he employs surrealistic juxtapositions and unusual perspectives to imbue the painting with a startling visual intensity, while…
-
01 Mural, The art of War, Haifa Subay’s Women and War, with footnotes
‘Pain and hope have two different meanings, but they are associated with every experience of motherhood that a woman goes through. In the face of the ongoing conflict and its impact on women and children, women bring about an invisible engagement for peace. Women can play a bigger role in formal peace talks. This proxy…
-
01 Painting, The art of War, Leonard Henry Rosoman’s Bomb Falling into Water, with footnotes
As a member of the National Fire Service, Rosoman had first-hand experience of fighting fires during German bombing raids. He was stationed in the East End of London, which was especially badly hit. He explained that Bomb Falling into Water was ‘painted in 1942 when I was in the N.F.S. and was the result of…
-
01 Painting, The art of War, Wyndham Lewis’ The Surrender of Barcelona, with footnotes
Lewis was working on this painting in the year of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The conflict in Spain was the setting for Lewis’s novel ‘The Revenge for Love’, which was published in 1937. However, Lewis denied any connection between this picture and the book. In 1950 Lewis wrote: ‘In the Surrender of…
-
01 Painting, The art of War, George Bellows’ Edith Cavell, with footnotes
Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse and member of La Dame Blanche. She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination and for covertly helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium and return to active service during the First World War, which in…
-
01 Painting, The art of War, André Fougeron’s Massacre at Sakiet, with footnotes
Sakiet Sidi Youssef is a town and commune in the Kef Governorate, Tunisia, near the border with Algeria. On 8 February 1958, it was bombarded by French forces in the belief that it was serving as a refuge for Algerian independence fighters. About 20 French bombers and fighters attacked causing at least 70 deaths and 130…
-
02 Paintings, The art of War, Leonard Henry Rosoman’s House Collapsing on Two Firemen, with footnotes
Dramatic view of a building on fire during the Second World War in CLondon. The figure of the men are silhouetted on the ground in the brightness of the scene, as they fight the blaze… Please follow link for full post
-
01 Fresco, The art of War, Il trionfo della morte/ The Triumph of Death, circa 1446, with footnotes
The fresco depicts a luxurious garden surrounded by a hedge. Death enters riding a skeletal horse, firing arrows from a bow. Death aims at characters belonging to all social levels, killing them. Death has just released an arrow, which has hit a young man in the lower right corner; Death also wears a scythe at…
-
01 Photograph, The art of War, Oliver Weiken’s A young Palestinian girl, with footnotes
Jul. 24, 2014. A young Palestinian girl who got injured when a UN school for refugees was allegedly hit by a Israeli tank shells, lies on a hospital bed in the emergency room of Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip. Oliver Weiken has a diverse and extensive work experience in the field of photography.…
-
02 Works, The art of War, Andrew Wyeth and Birds of War, with footnotes
In Soaring, begun in 1942, Wyeth took to the sky to adopt a bird’s-eye view of his surrounding landscape. In this large-scale painting, the viewer hovers with three turkey vultures above a lone house and barn isolated in a vast, empty landscape. The largest vulture, suspended just below the posited viewer. It appears as a…
-
01 Painting, The art of War, Horacio Ferrer’s Madrid 1937 (Aviones negros), with footnotes
Ferrer had studied in Italy on a grant from the Junta de Ampliación de Estudios (Board of Advanced Studies). He spent one year there, between 1934 and 1935, studying, among other things, the fresco technique. It is also worth noting Ferrer’s early preferences and artistic knowledge; his library contained copies of French and German magazines…
-
01 Painting, The art of War, Vasily Vereshchagin’s The Apotheosis of War, with footnotes
Apotheosis depicts a pile of human skulls set on the barren earth, the aftermath of a battle or siege. A flock of carrion birds are seen to be occupied with picking over the pile; some birds have already landed, while others are flying in or roosting in nearby trees. The shadow cast by the mound,…
-
01 Painting, The art of War, Rocroi, the last third, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, with footnotes
The Battle of Rocroi, fought on 19 May 1643, was a major engagement of the Thirty Years’ War between a French army, led by the 21-year-old Duke of Enghien and Spanish forces under General Francisco de Melo only five days after the accession of Louis XIV to the throne of France after his father’s death.…
-
1 Painting, The art of War, Francisco Goya’s The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid, or “The Executions”, with footnotes
A depiction of the execution of patriots from Madrid by a firing squad from Napoleon´s army in reprisal for their uprising against the French occupation on the second of May, 1808. The French soldiers are at the right of the composition, with their backs to the viewer. They aim their rifles at the Madrilenes who…
-
1 Painting, The art of War, Alkis Keramidas’ The massacre of Distomo, Macedonia, with footnotes
On June 10, 1944, one of the most brutal events in all of World War II took place in the tiny village of Distomo on the Greek mainland. According to survivor testimony, Nazi SS troops went door to door and massacred 218 Greek civilians. Survivors said that the Nazis bayoneted babies in their cribs and…
Zaidan Gallery 