Tag: Arthistory
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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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01 work, the art of war, William Skeoch Cumming’s Drummer James Roddick of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 10,625 in Oct 2008 After taking part in Major-General Frederick Roberts’ famous march from Kabul to Kandahar in August 1880, the 92nd Highlanders were immediately sent into action in order to relieve the besieged garrison. During the subsequent fight, Lieutenant Menzies, on hearing voices on the other side of a locked door, shot…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Eugenio Álvarez Dumont’s Girona’s great day (19 September 1809), with footnotes
At a quarter to four in the afternoon, the bell of the cathedral sounds the alarm and drums roll everywhere with the call to arms. In the streets and squares sounds the call ‘To arms, assault on the breaches!’ The attacked breaches reinforce themselves with utter bravery. Our general arrives accompanied by the lieutenant of…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Migita Toshihide’s The Fall of Pyongyang, from a series on the Sino-Japanese War, 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, Alexander von Wagner’s Self- Sacrifice of Titusz Dugovics, with footnotes
Titusz Dugovics or Titus Dugović (died in 21 July 1456) was the alleged identity of an unknown Hungarian soldier who was stationed during the Siege of Belgrade by the Ottoman Empire’s forces in Belgrade. Belgrade was at this time under the command of John Hunyadi. From 4 to 22 July 1456, and was besieged by the…
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01 Work, The art of War, Nash, John’s Oppy Wood, Evening, with Footnotes
The lower half of the composition has a view inside a trench with duckboard paths leading to a dug-out. Two infantrymen stand to the left of the dug-out entrance, one of them on the firestep looking over the parapet into No Man’s Land. There is a wood of shattered trees littered with corrugated iron and…
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01 Work, The art of War, Karl Bryullov’s The Last Day of Pompeii, with Footnotes
The destruction of Pompeii, Italy, is one of the most well-preserved catastrophes in human history. But scientists still disagree on how exactly thousands of Roman people died during those two fateful days in 79 C.E. For decades, many experts thought they asphyxiated amid the massive clouds of ash belched from the volcanic eruption of Mount…
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