Category: Art
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03 Works, The Art of War, Shepard Fairey’s Fan the flames, Imperial Glory and War By Numbers VSE, with footnotes
Fan the Flames is about the unfortunate truth that unchecked capitalism and a livable planet will soon be incompatible… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita’s Sahara, les enfants du desert/ children of the desert, with footnotes
Estimated for US$350,000 – US$550,000 in Dec 2022 Four children in the foreground are bedecked in white, black, and red indigenous garb, joined by a jolly chimpanzee in the center of their grouping. Foujita has modeled the children’s faces with the utmost delicacy, in keeping with his refined technique. Sahara, les enfants du desert by…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Sebastiano Ricci’s Camillus Rescuing Rome from Brennus and Paul Joseph Jamin’s Spoils of the Battle, with footnotes
In the Battle of the Allia, Brennus defeated the Romans and entered Rome itself. He captured the entire city of Rome except for the Capitoline Hill, which was successfully held against them… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Paul-Louis-Narcisse Grolleron’s Dragoons breaking from battle, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 2,750 in May 2016 Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot. From the early 17th century onward, dragoons were increasingly also employed as conventional cavalry and trained for combat with swords and firearms from horseback. While their use goes back to the late…
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08 Works, The Art of War, Henry Zaidan’s Alma and her soldiers return Home, with footnotes
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01 Work, The Art of War, Henry Zaidan’s destruction and chaos, with footnotes
The premise of The Art of War is that war should be avoided with diplomacy. If it cannot be avoided, it should be fought strategically and psychologically to minimize damage and the wasting of resources. Warfare should only be a last resort and heading into battle is already admitting a kind of defeat. More on The…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Félix Vallotton’s Verdun, with footnotes
Vallotton visited the front lines and trenches of the eastern front during WWI; and produced a series of 14 canvases. This one, christened “Verdun,” refers to the place that has come to symbolize World War I, where more than 600,000 soldiers from both sides perished in 1916. Deciding against painting the destructive “forces” themselves, Vallotton opted…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Niki de Saint Phalle’s La Mort, with footnotes
Estimate for 40,000 – 60,000 USD in May 2024 Niki de Saint Phalle paired bold, jubilant, and cartoonish feminine forms with dark and disturbing material in her multifaceted artistic career. Throughout, she continually disrupted long-held conventions in art, and her iconoclastic approach to her identity and society at large made her an early and important voice…
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01 Painting, The Art of War, Leander Russ’ The Turks Storm the Lion’s Bastion, with Footnotes
The Battle of Kahlenberg on September 12, 1683 ended the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna . A German – Polish relief army under the leadership of the Polish King John III. Sobieski defeated the Ottoman army . The defeat marked the beginning of the end of Turkish hegemonic politics . On the Christian side, the combined…
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01 Painting, African Artists, Art of War, Mohamed Abdalla Otaybi’s Against Violence, with Footnotes
Sold for £3,200 in May 2023 Mohamed Abdalla Otaybi was born in 1948 in Dewaim and now lives and works in Omdurman. He is a graphic designer, cartoonist and teacher, and one of the best-known contemporary artists in Sudan. He has had exhibitions in different parts of the world and has been awarded a couple of awards in…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Henry Zaidan’s Days later Alma is still in her cell, with footnotes
Alma, The Middle Eastern Warrior, languishes in her cell, days after she was captured trying to take back the supplies stolen from her people… Please follow link for full post
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During her last raid on the enemy Alma was captured and thrown in a dungeon
A still photo, Pre-Raphaelite style painting of an elegant, slender Arabian warrior woman with flowing dark red hair, clad in delicately ornate yet scant Arab armor, revealing mud-spattered legs, arms, and midriff beneath a veneer of battle weariness, positioned gracefully on the stone floor of a dimly lit, medieval dungeon cell, her curvaceous form bathed…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Eugenio Lucas Velázquez’s The Ambush, with footnotes
The theme of travellers waylaid by bandits was a common one in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century painting as the Napoleonic wars brought chaos and lawlessness to many parts of Europe. Criminals, deserters and the remnants of defeated armies often turned to highway robbery as the social order collapsed. More on this painting Eugenio Lucas…
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01 Work, The Art of War, After the Execution (Après l’exécution), cover of Le Mot, vol. 1, no. 5, January 9, 1915, with footnotes
Le Mot, a wartime French literary and artistic journal published by Jean Cocteau and Paul Iribe, was characterized by a restrained modernism and a fiercely nationalistic, anti-German perspective. This cover shows a German officer with a smoking gun, his face distorted as he screams at and hovers over the body of a young boy he…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Migita Toshihide’s The Fall of Pyongyang, with footnotes
Amid the smoke of battle, Japanese troops encircle panicked Chinese soldiers in this panoramic view of the conquest of the Korean city of Pyongyang during the first Sino-Japanese War (1894–95). This propagandistic image, aimed at a domestic Japanese audience and saturated with racist overtones, draws a contrast between the Japanese participants’ modern, Western-style uniforms and…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Frank McCarthy’s Charging Warrior, with footnotes
Estimated for $5,000 USD – $7,000 USD in April 2024 Carrying a lance, a Northern Plains warrior charges across to battle a challenger. He carries into this fight his personal medicine, given him in a long-ago vision quest by some guardian spirit. Frank McCarthy (March 30, 1924 – November 17, 2002) was an American artist and…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Alexander Bubnov and Adolphe Yvon’s The Battle of Kulikovo, with footnotes
The moment before the Battle of Kulikovo, on September 8, 1380, against the Mongolian golden horde, Russian forces lined up and in arms, led by Dimitri IV Donskoi… Please follow link for full post
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02 Works, The Art of War, Maxwell, Edward Burra’s Wake and Soldiers at Rye, with footnotes
Rye became a centre for military activity. Soldiers are turned into nightmarish birdmen, recalling the Surrealist paintings of German artist Max Ernst. Burra was also interested in sixteenth-century English poetry. The bright colours and stylised dress of the soldiers might suggest courtly combat… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Domenick D’Andrea’s Battle of Long Island, with footnotes
Colonel Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, father of Robert E. Lee, once commented that during the war “the state of Delaware furnished one regiment only; and certainly no regiment in the army surpassed it in soldiership.” At the Battle of Long Island, the actions of the Delaware Regiment kept the American defeat from becoming a disaster.…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Eric Kennington’s Bantam Hercules and Raider with a Cosh, with footnotes
At the beginning of the first world war, army recruits under 5 feet 2 inches tall were rejected. But ‘in the factory districts of Lancashire and Cheshire, the average stature was lower’… Please follow link for full post
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