Tag: Arthistory
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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1 Painting, The art of War, Stanley Spencer’s Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, with footnotes
Spencer was commissioned to create this painting in April 1918 by the British War Memorials Committee. In his owns words Spencer wanted to show ‘God in the bare real things, in a limber wagon, in ravines, in fouling mule lines.’ Of those he depicts he said ‘during these nights the wounded passed through the dressing…
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1 Painting, The art of War, Constant Meyer’s Recognition, with footnotes
Recognition: North and South is a painting of a Union soldier who is dying on the battlefield. The reason it is called Recognition is that there is a Confederate soldier holding him, supposedly his brother who was fighting for the Confederacy during the same battle. This powerful painting captures the sorrow of the Civil War…
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1 Painting, The art of War, Howard Pyle’s The Shell, with footnotes
In his painting The Shell, Howard Pyle depicts the caves dug into a hillside as bomb shelters by families in Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the city’s Civil War siege. The great danger of these cave is described in detail in a first-hand account by William W. Lord, Jr. in “A Child at the Siege of Vicksburg,”…
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1 Painting, The art of War, John Singer Sargent’s Gassed, with footnotes
A side on view of a line of soldiers being led along a duckboard by a medical orderly. Their eyes are bandaged as a result of exposure to gas and each man holds on to the shoulder of the man in front. One of the line has his leg raised in an exaggerated posture as…
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02 Paintings, Gottfried Helnwein’s The Disasters of War 3 and Eyes That Knew No Shade of Sin or Fear, with footnotes
Children are the heroes of Helnwein’s Disasters of War series. His emphasis on the child is sincerely rooted in his own deficient childhood, which the artist describes as a gray period… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Dean Cornwell’s Wartime Evacuation, with Footnotes
Estimate for $10,000 – $15,000 in Nov 2023 Dean Cornwell (March 5, 1892 – December 4, 1960) was an American illustrator and muralist. Cornwell was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Charles L. Cornwell, was a civil engineer whose drawings of industrial subjects fascinated Cornwell as a child. He began his professional career as a cartoonist…
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04 Works, October 2h. is Sigrid Hjertén’s day, her story, illustrated with footnotes #259
Born to a middle-class family in Sundsvall, Sigrid Hjertén lost her mother at a very young age. She studied to be a drawing teacher at the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, and in 1908 became a tapestry card designer for Giöbels, a decorative arts company… Please follow link for full…
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07 Works, October 17th. is Childe Hassam’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #258
Childe Hassam (1859–1935), was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Equally adept at capturing the excitement of modern cities and the charms of country retreats, Hassam became the foremost chronicler of New York City at the turn of the century… Please follow link for full post
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