Tag: Artists
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01 Work, The Art of War, N.C. Wyeth’s The Bloody Angle, with footnotes
Wyeth intended The Bloody Angle to evoke the general horror of war and specifically. “Then the storm broke, “and the angle became the spot on earth where, it is estimated, in all the history of the earth the musketry fire was the heaviest. It became The Bloody Angle.” Wyeth compressed both blue and gray soldiers…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Ferdinand Hodler’s Dying Warrior, with footnotes
Fragment from the second cartoon for the mural “The Retreat at Marignano” for the weapon room in the Swiss National Museum in Zurich. This artwork of Hodler is also known as: F.Hodler, Sterbender Krieger.The Battle of Marignano was the last major engagement of the War of the League of Cambrai and took place on 13–14 September…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Ferdinand Hodler’s Excerpt of the German students in the War of Freedom of 1813, with footnotes
The painting, executed in the style of a fresco, is composed horizontally. In the lower zone, the motif of the departure is carried out in two individually designed groups; in the upper half, the column of students going into battle can be seen against the background of a Jena landscape… Please follow link for full…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jean Alaux’s Bataille de Denain, with footnotes
The Battle of Denain was fought on 24 July 1712 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession. It resulted in a French victory, under Marshal Villars, against Dutch and Austrian forces, under Prince Eugene of Savoy. It was the war’s last battle in Flanders and one of the most consequential, breaking the Grand Alliance’s…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jean-François Millet’s The Wanderers, with footnotes
Estimate for 40,000 – 60,000 GBP in Dec 2023 Painted during the last years of the 1840s, The Wanderers, of a mother and child paused in their travels with no clear destination before them, is a reflection of the period of great social upheaval in France before and after the 1848 revolution. The present work…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Hans Thoma’s War, with footnotes
War has left behind a blazing inferno. The silhouette of the allegorical figure rises darkly against the flaming red fire the dragon is spewing from his helmet. The rigorous profile view gives the man a look of unwavering determination, so that the dramatic sense of movement makes the events seem inevitable. The Städel acquired the…
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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, Ismail Shammout’s Al- Tariq/ The Way, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 150,000 in Oct 2019 Al Tariq (The Way) reflects the tone of the dramatic and tragic events which unfolded in Palestine during the 1950s forward. The mastery in figurative execution of the piece highlights the many faces of a deeply affected crowd. As suggested by the title, the aggravated crowd is on the way, moving…
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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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