Tag: Art
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, The Art of War, Théodore Chassériau’s Battle of Arab Horsemen Around a Standard, with footnotes #95
The painting is very dramatic and dense, and the soldiers and horses in the center are sketched with loose brushstrokes. The dramatism of the composition is emphasized by the closeness between the participants in the battle and by some gory details, such as the human severed head and his corpse, at the left, in the…
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01 Works The Art of War, Wissam Al Jazairi’s Lampedusa and Refugees, with footnotes
Lampedusa, Italy — The small harbor in Lampedusa is crowded with a fleet of dilapidated wooden and metal smuggler’s boats, some half-submerged. Discarded life jackets, filthy clothes and plastic water bottles float in the sea. Nearly 2,000 migrants have died crossing the Mediterranean this year. Lampedusa is the closest piece of European territory to North Africa,…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists. Hocine Ziani’s The Numidian horseman, with footnotes, #94
Numidian cavalry was a type of light cavalry developed by the Numidians. After they were used by Hannibal during the Second Punic War, they were described by the Roman historian Livy as “by far the best horsemen in Africa.” The Numidian cavalry’s horses, ancestors of the Berber horse, were small compared to other horses of the…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, The Art of War, Suleiman Mansour’s Untitled, The distruction of Palestine’s Olive trees, with Footnotes #76
Sold for 25,200 GBP in October 2022 Palestinian farmers know their land by the square-millimeter. To them, there is no such thing as “wild plants”: each sprout on their land is an expression of Palestinian life, as indigenous flora. They harvest the crops, take care of their trees, and walk along their vines with the…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, THE ART OF WAR, Karl Friedrich Lessing’s The Return of the Crusader, with Footnotes #215
Teutonic knight returning from the crusade; based on Karl Immermann’s poem “The Entry of the Crusaders”. The late Arnold Toynbee once referred to the crusades as “Christianized Viking expeditions,” and given the wanton destruction and killing that accompanied these Frankish invasions of Palestine, his description seems appropriate. But the crusades provided Western Christianity with its…
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12 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Bouboulina, the Heroine naval captain during Greece’s War of Independence, with Footnotes #212
The defeat of the Greek insurgents at Missolonghi which fell on April 29, 1826 at the hands of the Turks. The news of the fall of the most powerful fortress of Greece mobilized the Philhellenes of Western Europe and revived sympathy for the Greeks… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Rohan Hours’ Lamentation of the Virgin, Nothing has changed in over 2000 years, with Footnotes #212
The grieving Virgin cannot be consoled by the Apostle John, who looks up in consternation at a saddened God. The Grandes Heures de Rohan (The Rohan Hours) is an illuminated manuscript book of hours, painted by the anonymous artist known as the Rohan Master, probably between 1418 and 1425, in the Gothic style. It contains the…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Annibale Carracci’s Lamentation of Christ, Lamentation of one’s child, Nothing has changed in over 2000 years, with Footnotes #211
This is perhaps the most poignant image in the National Gallery’s collection of the pietà – the lamentation over the dead Christ following his crucifixion. It was a subject to which Annibale Carracci returned frequently, especially during the last decade of his life. Here, the limp and lifeless body of Christ lies in the lap…
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01 Icon, Mariotto di Nardo di Cione’s Stations of the Cross, Nothing has changed in over 2000 years, with footnotes #79
“Again, my son fell, and again my grief was overwhelming at the thought that he might die. I started to move toward him, but the soldiers prevented me.” The Via Dolorosa (Stations of the Cross) is a processional route in the Old City of Jerusalem. It represents the path that Jesus took, forced by the soldiers,…
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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 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, 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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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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