Category: Art
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01 Work, The art of War, Toyen’s Na Zámku La Coste (At La Coste Castle), with Footnotes
Toyen’s life’s work occupies a unique position in the male-dominated Czech avant-garde art scene as well as in international Surrealism and art up to the 1970s. André Breton celebrated the Surrealist for her moving paintings and graphic work, which she steadfastly pursued between Prague, the »magical capital of Europe«, and her exile in Paris. TOYEN’s…
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01 Work, The art of War, Eliran Kantor’s Of Truth and Sacrifice, with Footnotes
Of Truth and Sacrifice is the ninth studio album by German extreme metal band Heaven Shall Burn, released on 20 March 2020 through Century Media Records. The song “Heaven Shall Burn” by Imminence explores themes of sacrifice, hopelessness, and inner turmoil. The lyrics depict a bleak and desperate world where the streets run red with…
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01 Work, The art of War, Richard Jack’s First World War, The Taking of Vimy Ridge, with Footnotes
As far as Urquhart could determine, the 10th Battalion men were not digging in, possibly because its command structure was in disarray after Boyle’s death. Hoping to help restore order, Urquhart approached the battalion’s second- in-command, Major Joseph MacLaren, and relayed Leckie’s orders about digging in. Seemingly distracted, MacLaren replied that “he was wounded in…
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01 Work, The art of War, Henri-Georges Chartier’s French infantry recapturing Fort Douaumont, with Footnotes
The French Second Army made a first attempt to recapture the fort in late May 1916. They occupied the western end of the fort for 36 hours but were dislodged after suffering heavy losses, mostly from German artillery and trench mortars nearby. The Germans stubbornly held onto the fort, as it provided shelter for troops…
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01 Work, The art of War, Antoine-Jean Gros’ Le combat de Nazareth/ The battle of Nazareth, with Footnotes
The scene represents the end of the fight where General Junot commanded the five hundred French, victorious at Nazareth, over ten thousand Turks. We see Junot a little to the left, riding a fiery white horse and slashing an enemy, after having brought down another with a pistol shot. Brigade leader Desnoyers gallops past the…
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02 Works, The art of War, Arno Rink’s Terror I and Terror II, with Footnotes
In this paintings Rink wanted to talk about the situation in a country with one of the most hateful and cruel dictators of the time: General Augusto Pinochet, who took power in 1973 in Chile (the USA helped, as is well known) and repressed his people with an iron fist. Many simply disappeared… Please follow…
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01 Work, The art of War, Samuel Bak’s Elegy III, with Footnotes
Many survivors of the Holocaust report that they heard a final plea from those who were killed: “Remember! Do not let the world forget.” To this responsibility to those they left behind, survivors have added a plea of their own: “Never again.” Never for the Jewish people. Never for any people. They hope that remembrance…
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01 Work, The art of War, Edith Birkin’s The Death Cart – Lodz Ghettord, with Footnotes
People carry bodies wrapped in white sheets to a horse-drawn cart in a city street. Other people look on from windows and doorways, their faces largely skull-like in appearance. The Lódz Ghetto was the second-largest ghetto established for Jews and Roma in German-occupied Poland after the Warsaw ghetto. Situated in the town of Lódz and…
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01 Work, The art of War, Eliran Kantor’s Erebus, with Footnotes
In Greek mythology, Erebus is the personification of darkness. In Hesiod’s Theogony, he is the offspring of Chaos, and the father of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Nyx (Night); in other Greek cosmogonies, he is the father of Aether, Eros, and Metis, or the first ruler of the gods. In genealogies given by Roman authors,…
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01 Work, The art of War, George Mayer-Marton’s Women with Boulders, with Footnotes
A desolate moorland, scattered with boulders, under a dark sky. A woman in a blue dress is seated, looking at something she holds in the palm of her hand. A Madonna-like figure with a grey cloak draped around her and covering her head, stands over her, holding a baby in her arms. In the distance…
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01 Work, The art of War, Lama Sabachthani’s Why have you forsaken me? with Footnotes
A scene of mourning. A group of Jewish men, women and children weep and mourn over a mound of corpses. In the background are further large heaps of corpses and burning buildings. The mourning men wear prayer shawls and pillbox hats and carry Torah scrolls; the women wear headscarves or shawls over their hair. Kestelman…
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01 Work, The art of War, Samuel Hirszenberg’s The Black Banner, with Footnotes
The painting shows the funeral of a hassidic rabbi, but simultaneously refers the viewer back to The Wandering Jew in the depiction of “the fearful eyes and bedazzled look among the mourners.” This painting “highlights Hirszenberg’s merging of the symbolic with the realistic, and alludes once again the angst of life in exile and eternal…
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01 Work, The art of War, John Olson’s Wounded Marines being evacuated during the Battle of Hue in February 1968, with Footnotes
The fighting in Hue City, Vietnam, was as intense and confusing as anything the Marines there had ever seen. It was mid-February 1968, and American and South Vietnamese forces were desperately trying to counter a surprise onslaught that became known as the Tet offensive. First Battalion, Fifth Marines had breached the city’s historic Citadel. Radio…
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04 Works, The art of War, Alan Moore’s Blind man in Belsen and SS guards burying dead, with Footnotes
Figure of a blind man, with head bandaged, walking through the Belsen concentration camp in Germany after liberation… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The art of War, Jack Leonard Shadbolt’s Behind the Wire, with Footnotes
The impact of war on artists can be profound. Terrible sights and awful experiences are transformed into works of art that honour acts of courage and move the soul, or they record immense cruelty in chilling images of man’s inhumanity to man. In February 1945, war artist Jack Shadbolt travelled to London, England, to assist…
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01 Work, The art of War, Fausto Zonaro’s Battle of Domokos, with Footnotes
The Battle of Domokos took place between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Greece. This battle was a part of the Greco-Turkish War (1897). After Greece tried to annex the island Crete the Ottoman porte declared war on Greece. The commander of the Ottoman army at Elassona was Edhem Pasha. He was one of the…
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01 Work, The art of War, George Clausen’s Youth Mourning, with Footnotes
A naked young woman, personifying Youth, kneels in a grief-stricken attitude before a wooden cross marking a grave. In the distance are the flooded craters of a battlefield. Youth Mourning is a return to Clausen’s early style of painting. The painting is a response to the horrors of the First World War and, in particular,…
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01 Work, The art of War, Walter Bayes’ The Underworld: Taking cover in a Tube Station during a London air raid, with Footnotes
A scene of civilians, predominantly women and children, sheltering in Elephant and Castle tube station. Some civilians sit on the platform seating, whilst others sit or lie on the platform itself. On the wall behind are a few C R W Nevinson posters. More on this painting The son of a painter and etcher, Walter Bayes had already…
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01 Work, The art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s Paths Of Glory, with Footnotes
In one of Nevinson’s most famous paintings, we see the bodies of two dead British soldiers behind the Western Front. The ‘Paths of Glory’ was famously censored by the official censor of paintings and drawings in France, Lieutenant – Colonel A N Lee. His concern presumably being the representation of the rotting and bloated British corpses…
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01 Work, The art of War, József Molnár’s The Destruction of Pompeii, with Footnotes
Of the many eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, a major stratovolcano in southern Italy, the best-known for its eruption in 79 AD, which was one of the deadliest. In autumn of 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius violently spewed forth a cloud of super-heated tephra and gases to a height of 33 km (21 mi), ejecting molten rock,…
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