Tag: Arthistory
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01 Work, The Art of War, Maximilian Pirner’s The End of All Things, with footnotes
Maximilian Pirner’s “The End of All Things” is a haunting and thought-provoking work of art that expertly combines technical skill with emotional depth. It is a testament to the power of art to explore the human condition and to challenge our perceptions of the world around us. More on this painting Maximilian Pirner (13 February 1853…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Louis Masreliez’s An Allegory of War, with footnotes
Sold for USD 62,500 in Apr 2021 The present Allegory of War depicts a furious Minerva, Roman goddess of War, dismounting her horse-drawn chariot, shield in one hand, thunderbolt in the other, charging toward a distant battle. Above her flies the winged, bearded, bare-chested Boreas, ancient god of the cold North Wind, accompanied by winged zephyrs,…
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01 Work The Art of War, Armand-Charles Caraffe’s Metellus besieges a city, with footnotes
Tamburlaine is a poor shepherd who rises to power to live out his blood-soaked fantasy of conquering the world. His extravagant savagery shows what horror can result when unlimited political libido is let loose upon the world… Tamburlaine the Great is a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Maynard Dixon’s Shapes of Fear, with footnotes
The abstract idea of fear is concretized here, in the way the four shapes representing four humans stand huddled together, their faces missing but their feet visible under their long cloaks. The cloaks appear like shrouds hiding faces paralyzed by fear. Out of the four shapes only one is facing the viewer, with a mere…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugene (1798-1863) French Young Woman Taken Away By A Tiger Or Indian Bitten By A Tiger, with footnotes
Parallel to these complex compositions, where the hunters on horseback lead the choreography, Delacroix worked on many scenes with two figures, in which a great cat is shown tearing its prey—human or animal—to pieces. Lion Devouring a Rabbit, Lion Devouring an Arab, and Young Woman Attacked by a Tiger (also known as Indian Woman Bitten by a…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni’s Allegory of Peace and War, with footnotes
Pompeo Batoni’s grand portraits and numerous religious and historical commissions established him as the leading Roman painter of his day. He painted Peace and War on his own initiative, without a commission, attracting critical praise for the work’s graceful invention. It combines elements of Rococo softness and eroticism with the newly fashionable Neoclassical style. War,…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sir Peter Paul Rubens’ Allegory of war, with footnotes
“Allegory of War” shows a woman sitting on the ground at the edge of a battle among the dead and seemingly despairing of war. “Rubens occasionally negotiated peace talks and in the Thirty Years’ War, like many other artists of the pre-modern epochs, commented triumphantly on ongoing negotiations in painting and exaggerated peace agreements achieved.…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Fernando Cueto Amorsolo’s Hope in the Ruins of Manila, with footnotes
Sold for HKD 2,680,000 in Nov 2015 After years of occupation, the Battle of Manila began on February 3, 1945. The month-long campaign resulted in the death of over 100,000 civilians and the complete devastation of the city. It was the scene of atrocity after atrocity committed against Filipino civilians by the Japanese soldiers. Recalcitrant Japanese set…
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01 Work, The Art of War, John Steuart Curry’s Parade to War, Allegory, with footnotes
Painted in the years between the Great Depression and World War II, Parade to War, Allegory reflects many Americans’ apprehension about joining the looming conflict. John Steuart Curry transformed a celebratory parade into a gruesome scene, where young soldiers morph into skeletons. Beneath the streamers and waving flags, Curry portrays conflicting emotions. In the center…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Hugo Simberg’s The Wounded Angel, with footnotes
Two sullen boys carry an angel on a stretcher. The angel’s wing has been wounded, and there is a bandage over the eyes. This painting was voted Finland’s best-loved work of art, speaks to the viewer in countless ways – there are as many interpretations as there are viewers. This is probably exactly the intention…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Fernando Cueto Amorsolo’s Bataan, with footnotes
A woman with her head held up, as she kneels before a fallen soldier. Later named “Bataan”, this was Amorsolo’s silent protest against the Japanese invaders of World War II, and the Fall of Bataan in April 1942. From January 7 to April 9, 1942, Filipino and American forces were consolidated along the peninsula of…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Dunn, Harvey Thomas’ Street Fighting, with footnotes
Depicted is an American soldier in olive drab uniform firing his M1903 Springfield rifle with a trail of yellow fire coming out of the gun barrel. To the left of the soldier is the body of another American soldier lying face down on the street, presumably dead. Surrounding the soldiers are piles of debris from…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Edgar Degas’s Scene of War in the Middle Ages, with footnotes
In the painting nine female nudes are shot, or are being shot at, by 15th-century warriors on horseback who ride stirrupless horses with harnesses barely sketched in.This most curious composition was exhibited at the 1865 Salon when he was 31 as a history painting, Scene of War in the Middle Ages, but it makes no…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Daniel Enkaoua’s Le manteau noire/ The black coat, with footnotes
Sold for EUR 13,750 in Sep 2012 Daniel Enkaoua, French, b. 1962, an artist known for his dedication to the art of observation, has consistently explored figures, still life, and landscapes throughout his career. His work is characterized by a captivating blur that invites viewers to ponder the essence of his subjects. Enkaoua’s paintings, set against…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Witold Pruszkowski’s The death of Anhelli, with footnotes
Sold for zł20,000 PLN in December 2014 Anhelli is a prose poem written by Polish Romantic-era poet and dramatist Juliusz Słowacki in 1837 and published the following year in Paris. The poem was written in the spring of 1837 in an Armenian monastery known as Betcheszban (Resting Place of the Dead) in Ghazir, a town in…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Wang Yancheng’s Sans titre 05, with footnotes
Estimate for 500,000 – 800,000 HKD in Nov 2023 Wang Yan Cheng was born Jan 9th 1960, in the Guangdong province (southern tip of China). Studies at Shandong Academy of Fine Arts and receives his diploma in 1985, becomes Assistant professor there as of 1986. Wang Yan Cheng arrives in France (Saint-Étienne region) in 1989.…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Greg Rutkowski and Kalin Popov’s Digital Paintings, with footnotes
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01 Work, The Art of War, Ismail Shammout’s Halo of Light, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 137,500 in Oct 2018 In the present scene, a Palestinian Feda’i guerilla fighter is enshrined by a luminous white light, inferred by the title to be a luminous halo; the man rests beneath an olive tree. While simple in its depicted subjects, the scene is ripe with powerful symbolism and irony; as the work…
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01 Work, The Art of War, George Tooker’s Landscape with Figures II, with footnotes
Estimated for 80,000 – 120,000 USD in Nov 2023 Tooker’s figures are gaunt but muscled, delicately balancing the fragility of age with a sense of inner strength; the leftmost appears to be modeled directly after Domenichino’s St. Jerome . Their expressions are enigmatic, reflecting a groggy surprise as they turn to the light, resurrected from the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jeremy Mann’s The Death Angel, with footnotes
In the Bible death is viewed under form of an angel sent from God, a being deprived of all voluntary power. “The destroyer” kills the first-born of the Egyptians, and the “destroying angel” rages among the people in Jerusalem. The “angel of the Lord” is seen by David standing “between the earth and the heaven,…
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