Tag: Arthistory
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01 Work, The Art of War, Henry Zaidan, A father and his daughters, with footnotes
Hiding in a dimly lit cave, a father holds a lantern and tries to reassures his scared daughters of their well being and the inevitable end to the chaos they hear all around them. Please visit my other blogs: Art Collector, Mythology, Marine Art, Portrait of a Lady, The Orientalist, Art of the Nude and The Canals of Venice, Middle East Artists, 365 Saints, 365 Days,…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Henry Zaidan, Alma and her warriors engage the enemy, with footnotes
Traditionally, the Bedouin were among the most dangerous of desert tribes, fighting among themselves when outsiders weren’t available. Constantly on the move to find new pastures for their livestock…” Please follow link for full post
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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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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 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Khadiga Riaz’s Untitled, with Footnotes #81
Sold for 6,300 GBP in October 2021 Khadiga Riad was the daughter of Hamed El Alaily and grand daughter of Ahmed Chawki, born in 1914 in Cairo, Egypt, studied at the Mere de Dieu college and from 1950 to 1954. She is regarded as Egypt’s foremost female surrealist. Riad has many variations in the spelling of her…
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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, Chikanobu Yôshû’s Japanese Fleet Landing Weiheiwei, with footnotes
The Battle of Weihaiwei took place between 20 January and 12 February 1895, during the First Sino-Japanese War in Weihai, Shandong Province, China, between the forces of Japan and Qing China. In early January 1895, the Japanese landed forces in eastern Shandong positioning forces behind the Chinese naval base at Weihaiwei. Through a well-coordinated offensive of…
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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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09 Works, The Art of War, Maxwell, Donald’s British Navy in Palestine, 1st World War, with footnotes
The Sinai and Palestine campaign was part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, taking place between January 1915 and October 1918… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Elizabeth Butler’s The Remnants of an Army, with footnotes
Elizabeth Butler represents the defeat of the British in the First Afghan War (1839–1842), when they failed to overthrow the Afghan leader Dōst Moammad Khān. Doctor William Brydon, believed to be the sole survivor of the British forces, reaches the British garrison at Jalalabad, ‘faint and reeling on his jaded horse’ against a dying light’.…
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04 Works, The Art of War, Maxwell, Donald’s British Navy in Syria, 1st World War, with footnotes
The Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz was a state in the Hejaz region of Western Asia that included the western portion of the Arabian Peninsula that was ruled by the Hashemite dynasty… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, William Orpen’s Zonnebeke, with footnotes
Zonnebeke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. In the spring and summer of 1917 Orpen painted the battlefields of the Somme, sometimes at places that had been captured only a short time earlier. Orpen described in a letter the shocking experience of seeing numbers of corpses lying unburied among the flooded shell holes,…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s La Mitrailleuse/ The Machine Gun, with footnotes
Christopher Nevinson identified with the Italian futurist art movement. They celebrated and embraced the speed and efficient power of the modern age. Nevinson’s experience as an ambulance driver in the First World War, however, changed his view of the potential of a mechanised world. In this painting, soldiers fighting in France are reduced to a…
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