Tag: Artists
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01 Work, The Art of War, Eugenio Álvarez Dumont’s Malasaña and his daughter fight against the French, with footnotes
The painting illustrates the moment when the guerrilla Juan Manuel Malasaña Pérez (1759–1808) kills the French dragoon who has just murdered his daughter, the embroiderer Manuela Malasaña Oñoro (1793– 1808), who was supplying her father with rifle cartridges to fight the French troops from her house during the assault on Monteleón Park. The scene takes…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Iythar Ghurab’s Fighter, with footnotes
For sale at C$1,320 in Jan 2024 “This painting is inspired by the unbelievable injustice, genocide, massacres and 75 year long crimes committed against the Palestinian people, by the Israeli occupiers, bombing civilians, women and children, bombing hospitals, shelters and schools and all exit routes, flattening their homes, ruining their fields and stealing their land,…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Diego Rivera’s The Uprising, 1931, with footnotes
You see the men wearing workers’ overalls and the women wearing modern day short dresses and short hair cuts and even earrings. It’s an urban industrial scene, and it’s a workers’ demonstration. In the very center of the composition is a woman actively asserting herself against the forces of oppression. She is pushing back the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jack Kevorkian’s The muse of genocide, with footnotes
“Go ahead, destroy this race! Destroy Armenia; see if you can do it. Send them from their homes into the desert. Let them have neither bread nor water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh again; see if they will not sing and pray again. For when two of them…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jules Monge’s the last of the battalion, with footnotes
All the soldiers present are French line infantry. The fighter writing with his blood “for France” is a sergeant, the one in the corner of the door is a corporal, the officer seems to be a lieutenant and finally next to him is a corporal-bugler. Given the uniforms, this scene takes place at the start…
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01 Work, The art of War, Suhair Sibai’s Damascus Queen #3, with Footnotes
Originally listed for C$9,108 Suhair Sibai was born in Syria in 1956. Through her work, Suhair explores the concepts of identity and the Self, using the female form as her preferred medium. According to Suhair, who was educated as an artist in the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles, the level of multiculturalism and diversity to which…
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01 Work, The art of War, Afshin Pirhashemi’s Seduction, with Footnotes
Sold for USD 518,500 in Oct 2010 Afshin Pirhashemi’s paintings explore the complexities of life in today’s Iran through his unique combination of carefully controlled photo-realistic depictions of Iranian figures and gothic fantasy. The almost exclusive use of black and white seen in his earlier paintings, has since been tempered with restrained use of colour. His…
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01 Work, The art of War, Ayman Baalbaki’s Fedayeen, with Footnotes
Sold for USD 233,000 in May 2015 The present work from the Mulatham series is an iconic image of heroism for Ayman Baalbaki. These freedom fighters or ‘fedayeen’, as they are commonly known, occupy an important part of his artistic oeuvre. His war-stricken childhood during the Lebanese Civil War translates into the portrayal of these…
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01 Work, The art of War, József Molnár’s Warrior Dezső Sacrifices his Life for King Charles Robert, with Footnotes
King Charles Robert of Anjou fleeing from the Battle of Posada (November 9-12, 1330). Romantic painting Charles’ army wear hussar clothes of the 17th century. The Basarab I of Wallachia’s army ambushed Charles Robert of Anjou, king of Hungary and his 30,000-strong invading army. The Vlach (Romanian) warriors rolled down rocks over the cliff edges…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sliman Mansour’s ON THE EDGE, with footnotes
Estimate for 30,000 – 40,000 GBP in March 2020 Sliman Mansour ( born 1947), is a Palestinian painter, considered an important figure among contemporary Palestinian artists. Mansour is considered an artist of intifada whose work captures to the cultural concept of sumud. Palestinian artist and scholar Samia Halaby has identified Mansour as part of the Liberation Art…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sliman Mansour’s Prison, with footnotes
Prison (1982) depicts five men, their hands cuffed behind their back and their heads covered so they cannot see. They are huddled together, back to back, confined within the walls of a prison. Most likely Palestinian and although faceless, the men appear strong, youthful and resilient in their stance. Yet melancholy undertones run throughout, as the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s A Taube, with footnotes
The Taube (Taube translates as ‘Dove’, taub as ‘death’) was a German reconnaisance plane but carried bombs that could be thrown from the cockpit. The casual violence of the scene marks the increasing vulnerability of the civilian population. Both the title and the evidence of an explosion imply that this was the cause of death…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sliman Mansour’s crowd, with footnotes
Mansour is a committed Palestinian artist. Here he paints a compact crowd, seized with fear and hampered by the barbed wire of the occupation. Beyond the Palestinian question, this image has, thirty years after its execution, a more universal scope: we see the people confronted with conflicts and the migrations which are their consequence. More on…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Howard Pyle’s A Wolf Had Not Been Seen at Salem for Thirty Years, with footnotes
Pyle’s image is rather sparse, between the snow and the cloudy sky he leaves the viewer’s eye to latch onto the people and the wolf. Your eye falls upon the people in the front, and the mix of fear and of the unknown is very strong here. Pyle creates his people, the landscape and even…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Elmars Mageramovs’ Victims of War, with footnotes
“The theme is relevant in our troubled time. I think it is worth thinking about our attitude to the world, to suppress in oneself everything that leads to war, instability in society, in the family, in nature. We should learn for analysis and thinking to be objective political processes understanding. The main victims of these…
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02 Works, The art of War, Louis Gallait’s War and Peace, with Footnotes
When this pair of allegorical paintings (together with Walters 37.124) was completed in 1872, a Belgian critic wrote: “M. Gallait just finished two paintings forming a pendant pair that rank among the best things he has ever done. They are allegories of peace and war, but allegories conceived in a new order of ideas, substituting…
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01 Work, The art of War, Benjamin West’s Edward III Crossing The Somme, with Footnotes
English offensives in 1345–1347, during the Hundred Years’ War, resulted in repeated defeats of the French, the loss or devastation of much French territory and the capture by the English of the port of Calais. The war had broken out in 1337 and flared up in 1340 when the king of England, Edward III, laid…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Afifa Aleiby’s Gulf War, with footnotes
Gulf War reflects Aleiby’s pain for the suffering that had resulted from the Persian Gulf War, which happened between 1990 to 1991 and was triggered by the Iraqi invasion of the State of Kuwait. The conflict resulted in the death of thousands, damage to infrastructure and cultural loss. Notably, The painting were painted while the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sue Coe’s Bomb Shelter? with footnotes
With access to the outside world choked off the superb painter Hanaa Malallah, developed varieties of ruggedly handmade books that are like the dream diaries of constricted personal lives and thwarted artistic aspirations. Malallah immigrated to the U.K. in 2006. A new work by her, “She/He Has No Picture” (2019), amplifies the aesthetic to generate…
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