Tag: Horsemen
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08 Works, The Art of War, Henry Zaidan’s Alma is sent back to Gaza, with footnotes
The time off that Alma had passed quickly! The business of Gaza had to be attended to. Called back to duty, Alma and her soldiers return to free the war torn city, and care for the severely wounded and distraught citizens… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, The Art of War, FAIK HASSAN’S ARABIAN HORSEMEN, with Footnotes #82
Estimate for 7,000 – 9,000 GBP in Mar 2020While Faiq Hassan’s painting style was influenced by his studies in Europe, he was dedicated to celebrating Iraqi national pride and worked towards developing a local visual language. His cubist works such as Bedouin Tent relay narratives of daily life from the Iraqi peasants living along the Tigris…
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01 Painting, Orientalist Artists, The Art of War, Adolf Schreyer’s Arab Horsemen, with footnotes #96
Adolf Schreyer (July 9, 1828 Frankfurt-am-Main – July 29, 1899 Kronberg im Taunus) was a German painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He studied art, first at the Städel Institute in his native town, and then at Stuttgart and Munich. He painted many of his favourite subjects in his travels in the East. He…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, The Art of War, Théodore Chassériau’s Battle of Arab Horsemen Around a Standard, with footnotes #95
The painting is very dramatic and dense, and the soldiers and horses in the center are sketched with loose brushstrokes. The dramatism of the composition is emphasized by the closeness between the participants in the battle and by some gory details, such as the human severed head and his corpse, at the left, in the…
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Max Jacob, Charge of Eastern Horsemen 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 44
Max Jacob (12 July 1876 – 5 March 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic. After spending his childhood in Quimper, Brittany, he enrolled in the Paris Colonial School, which he left in 1897 for an artistic career. He was one of the first friends Pablo Picasso made in Paris. They met in the…
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