Tag: fineart
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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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01 Work, Interpretations of Olympian deities, THE ART OF WAR, Arturo Michelena’s Penthesilea, with footnotes #50
Penthesilea, daughter of Ares and Otrera, was an Amazon queen who fought and died in the Trojan War. After Hector, the leader of the Trojan army, was killed in the final year of the war, Penthesilea arrived with a small but highly skilled troop of Amazon warriors to help the doomed city against the Greeks.…
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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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08 Works, The Art of War, Maxwell, Donald’s British Navy in Lebanon, 1st World War, with footnotes
During WWI, the Middle East was a battleground for various colonial powers, including the Ottoman Empire, Germany, France, and Britain… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The art of War, Jacek Malczewski’s Death, with Footnotes
Death is frequently imagined as a personified force. In some mythologies, a character known as the Grim Reaper, a berobed skeleton wielding a scythe, causes the victim’s death by coming to collect that person’s soul. Other beliefs hold that the spectre of death is only a psychopomp, a benevolent figure who serves to gently sever the…
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02 Works, The art of War, The Battle of Yarmouk between the army of the Byzantine Empire and the Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate, with Footnotes
The battle consisted of a series of engagements that lasted for six days in August 636, near the Yarmouk River, along what are now the borders of Syria–Jordan and Syria-Israel… Please follow link for full post
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04 Works, The art of War, Charles de Steuben, Eugène Delacroix and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s Bataille de Poitiers, with Footnotes
Muslim empire reaches its furthest extent. Battle of Tours prevents further advance northwards… Please follow link for full post
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02 Works, The art of War, Angus McBride’s Egyptian War Chariot in Action, with Footnotes
Chariots were very expensive, heavy and prone to breakdowns, yet in contrast with early cavalry, chariots offered a more stable platform for archers. Chariots were effective for archery because of the relatively long bows used… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ART, The art of War, Cjb Artist’s Middle East Eyes Painting, with Footnotes
Creative resistance; inspired by Palestinian street art, this artwork serves as a reflection of the effectiveness of art as a resistance tool and political instrument in the struggle waged against Israel. It’s symbolic power is an effective instrument on account of its ability … Cjb Artist is an artist, designer and college dropout, was born in…
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01 Work, The art of War, Badie Jahjah’s The dervish liberated me from war and violence, with Footnotes
Dervish, Darvesh, or Darwīsh in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity, or more narrowly to a religious mendicant, who chose or accepted material poverty. The latter usage is found particularly in Persian and Turkish (derviş) as well as in Amazigh (Aderwish), corresponding to the Arabic term faqīr. Their focus is on the…