Tag: History
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Louay Kayyali’s From Under the Rubble, with Footnotes #94
Sold for USD 103,000 in Oct 2007 Active during a time of immense upheaval in the Arab world, Kayyali was one of its most prominent socio-political artists, his paintings externalising the pressing humanitarian and political issues that surrounded him. His powerful depictions of ordinary people are characterized by strong fluid lines that define the figures…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Mahmoud Sabri’s Jnazet (Funeral), with Footnotes
Sold for 346,000 GBP in October 2018 The painting Jnazet is the peak of a multifaceted representation of the artist’s political and social ideologies that were intensified following the Ba’athist Coup. The funeral ‘procession’ is harshly etched, with jagged and symmetrical tendencies; an uplifted arm both appears to beat a drum and gesture in defiance. The…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Maher Attar’s Samar Baltaji, with Footnotes
Samar Baltaji is the one-legged mother in the photo, holding the hand of her maimed daughter, Nisrine, as they walked through a landscape of Beirut at war. In June 1985, during the war in the Palestinian camps — which pitted the Amal party against the Palestinians — he captured a photo that made the front…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Suleiman Mansour’s Motherhood, with Footnotes
Sold for 63,500 GBP in Oct 2023 An impassioned and tender depiction of the relationship between mother and child, Motherhood represents Mansour’s natural tendency towards familiar subjects, here both familial and national. With sincerity, the artist has rendered the ubiquitous narrative of motherhood with a localised style and custom; dressed in traditional robe, the woman holds…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Oussama Diab’s Monroe Al Jadida (The New Monroe), with Footnotes #92
Sold for USD 10,000 in Nov 2013 Born in 1977, in Damascus, Oussama Diab is a Palestinian contemporary artist based in Lebanon. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus in 2002. Diab has worked through various painting styles, often combining different forms and techniques in a single composition. His early works amassed paintings in…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, El Hussein Fawzi’s A Glimpse from History of the Channel Crossing, with Footnotes #87
The Crossing of the Suez Canal by Egyptian troops in October 1973 to attack Israeli forces; and the signing of the “Treaty of Peace between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel” by Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin on March 26, 1979. Born in Helmia district, Cairo on 4 September 1905, El Hussein…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Louay Kayyali’s Untitled, with Footnotes #93
Sold for USD 161,000 in Oct 2014 1952 marks the year during which the present untitled battle scene was depicted as well as the first public appearance of Kayyali’s work, an event that took place in his secondary school in Aleppo, the Madrasset Al Tajhiz Al Oula- Al Ma’moun Secondary School. Prior to that, Kayyali’s art was…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Mahmoud Sabri’s Al Mawt al-Tafl (The Death of a Child), with Footnotes #86
The Death of a Child, painted during Sabri’s earlier artistic phase in the 1960s, stands as an epitome for his artistic openness which was exacerbated by a career in exile. The painting evokes inspirational elements through the artist’s exposure to both contemporary Soviet Realist artwork and traditional Russian Orthodox icons. The piece depicts the mourning…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Ayman Baalbaki’s Untitled, with Footnotes #85
Ayman Baalbaki’s untitled artwork represents a bust view portrait of a fida’i (freedom fighter) wearing a keffiyeh, and a Guy Fawkes mask, set against a colorful background of acrylic in fabric laid on canvas Painted in Ayman Baalbaki’s signature expressionist style, the thought-provoking composition experiments with the notion of identity. Indeed, the portrayed fighter is…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Abed Abdi’s Expulsion from the Homeland, with Footnotes
Palestinian art history is largely characterized by fragmentation, both in style and content, which is a result of ongoing wars and displacement of people. Despite historical ruptures in time and space, artists have flourished in a multitude of voices and places to create a vibrant Palestinian art scene. The featured works by Abed Abdi (Lot…
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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…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The Art of War, Laila Shawa’s Target 2009, with footnotes
Sold for £ 6,000 in Jun 2009 Target 2009 was created as a direct response to the tragically high death toll amongst Gaza’s children due to Israeli military assaults earlier in 2009. A variation of the iconic Target (1992) from Shawa’s Walls of Gaza I silk screen series, it is also related to Targets (1994) from Walls…
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04 Works, The art of War, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot’s Art bearing witness to the agonies of war, with Footnotes
Pierre Georges Jeanniot was taught by his father Pierre-Alexandre Jeanniot, who for a long time was director of the art college in Dijon. He embarked on a military career, but exhibited watercolours as early as 1872 at the Paris Salon. In 1873, he exhibited his first oil painting there, Le Vernan at Nass-sous-Ste-Anne, and continued…
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01 Work, The art of War, Francesco Verio’s The Wounded, with Footnotes
As in every war, the wounded are far more numerous than those killed. Common combat injuries include second and third degree burns, broken bones, shrapnel wounds, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, nerve damage, paralysis, loss of sight and hearing, post-traumatic stress disorder, and limb loss. More on the wounded Criticism often addresses Francesco Verio as a young painter,…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, ART OF WAR, “Blenda” Warrior Woman, with Footnotes #146
Blenda is the heroine of a Swedish legend (Blendasägnen) from Småland. Blenda led the rural women of Värend in an attack on a pillaging Danish army and annihilated the invaders. According to the legend, the events took place in the time of Alle, King of the Geats, when this king led the Geats in an attack…
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01 Work, The art of War, Henri-Charles-Etienne Dujardin-Beaumetz’s A la baïonnette/ With the bayonet, with Footnotes
Etienne Dujardin-Beaumetz offers us with this painting a very dynamic composition given by the receding perspective formed by the lines of the roofs at the top and the staggering of the characters at the bottom. The smoke effects and the large gestures of the soldiers accentuate the impression of movement. This battle took place in…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Suleiman Mansour’s Motherhood, with Footnotes #69
Sold for 63,500 GBP in Oct 2023 An impassioned and tender depiction of the relationship between mother and child, Motherhood represents Mansour’s natural tendency towards familiar subjects, here both familial and national. With sincerity, the artist has rendered the ubiquitous narrative of motherhood with a localised style and custom; dressed in traditional robe, the woman holds her…
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02 Works, The art of War, Francesco Verio’s Journey in vain hopes, with Footnotes
More than 2,500 people have died or gone missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year, while approximately 186,000 people have arrived in European countries during the same period… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The art of War, Henri-Charles-Etienne Dujardin-Beaumetz’s General Lapasset burning his flags, with Footnotes
The artwork depicts General Ferdinand Auguste Lapasset, a French military leader during the Franco-Prussian War, engaging in an act of profound symbolism. In this poignant scene, General Lapasset is shown solemnly burning his country’s flags. It serves as a representation of defeat and surrendering to the enemy forces from Prussia. With contemplation etched on his…
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01 Marine Work, GEORGE SAVARY WASSON’s USS Brooklyn at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, With Footnotes, #320
The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was a decisive naval engagement that occurred on July 3, 1898 between an American fleet, led by William T. Sampson and Winfield Scott Schley, against a Spanish fleet led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, which occurred during the Spanish–American War. The significantly more powerful US Navy squadron, consisting of four…
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