Tag: Paintings
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01 Work, The Art of War, Eugenio Lucas Velázquez’s The Ambush, with footnotes
The theme of travellers waylaid by bandits was a common one in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century painting as the Napoleonic wars brought chaos and lawlessness to many parts of Europe. Criminals, deserters and the remnants of defeated armies often turned to highway robbery as the social order collapsed. More on this painting Eugenio Lucas…
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01 Work, Middle East Artists, LAILA SHAWA’s THE SOUK IN GAZA, with footnotes
Sold for 12,600 GBP in October 2020 This canvas by internationally acclaimed artist, Laila Shawa is of considerable historical significance within her artistic oeuvre. ‘The Souk’ was part of Shawa’s first solo exhibition in Gaza in 1965 entitled ‘Contrast and Contradictions’ – one year after her graduation from the Academy of Fine Art in Rome. Thereafter,…
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29 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings and Stories from the Bible, with footnotes #7
Religious art is a visual representation of religious ideologies and their relationship with humans. Sacred art directly relates to religious art in the sense that its purpose is for worship and religious practices. According to one set of definitions, artworks that are inspired by religion but are not considered traditionally sacred remain under the umbrella…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Khadiga Riaz’s Untitled, with Footnotes #81
Sold for 6,300 GBP in October 2021 Khadiga Riad was the daughter of Hamed El Alaily and grand daughter of Ahmed Chawki, born in 1914 in Cairo, Egypt, studied at the Mere de Dieu college and from 1950 to 1954. She is regarded as Egypt’s foremost female surrealist. Riad has many variations in the spelling of her…
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01 Work, The Art of War, After the Execution (Après l’exécution), cover of Le Mot, vol. 1, no. 5, January 9, 1915, with footnotes
Le Mot, a wartime French literary and artistic journal published by Jean Cocteau and Paul Iribe, was characterized by a restrained modernism and a fiercely nationalistic, anti-German perspective. This cover shows a German officer with a smoking gun, his face distorted as he screams at and hovers over the body of a young boy he…
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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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02 paintings, Middle East Artists, he Art of War, Laila Shawa’s Birds of Paradise in Gaza Sky I & II, with Footnotes #104
These art pieces reflects the haunting reality of life in the Gaza Strip. The people of Gaza are under constant bombing threats, potential attacks, and surveillance by Israeli drone systems… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings by Orientalist Artist; The Art of War, Georges Corominas’ Fantasia, with footnotes #98
Sidi Bel Abbès is the capital of the Sidi Bel Abbès wilaya , Algeria. It is named after Sidi bel Abbass, a Muslim marabout or noble man who is buried there… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Orientalist Artist, The Art of War, Ulpiano Checa’s Maghrebi Warriors, with footnotes #126
Estimate value as of May 2023 was €18,000-€20,000 A group of horsemen wrapped in white tunics burst into an Arab village, in whose architecture we seem to recognise the city of Fez. The galloping of the horses is animated by a tremendous brio. The din of the warriors contrasts with the peaceful life conveyed by…
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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 Painting by Orientalist Artists, The Art of War, Eugène Delacroix’s Collision of the Moorish Horsemen, with footnotes #98
“During their military exercises, which consist of riding their horses at full-speed and stopping them suddenly after firing a shot, it often happens that the horses carry away their riders and fight each other when they collide.” Delacroix uses fluid brush work to capture the color and movement of an Arab Fantasia, or ceremonial cavalry…
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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 Work, The Art of War, Henry Zaidan’s The Guard, with footnotes #99
The guard wears a helmet with a chain mail, finely decorated. Notably, visible is a shamshir, strapped to her side. She slightly leans in front of the beautifully carved wooden door she is guarding. The façade of the building is surmounted by an elegant calligraphic panel framed by Iznik carvings. Please visit my other blogs: Art…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, The Art of War, GUSTAVO SIMONI’s CHARGING CAVALIERS, with footnotes #95
Sold for £4,000 in February 2019 Gustavo Simoni was born in Rome. From 1861 until 1866 he studied at the Accademia de San Luca where his teachers were Salvatore Betti, Giuseppe Ferrari and Enrico Tarenghi. By 1875, Simoni had become one of the first members of the Società degli Acquarellisti, founded by Ettore Roesler Franz and…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Frank McCarthy’s Charging Warrior, with footnotes
Due to religious dictates it is very difficult to find classical Islamic art portraying people! To tell the story I have decided to try and make my own through AI. I hope I will eventually get it right! Thanks for your patience. Please visit my other blogs: Art Collector, Mythology, Marine Art, Portrait of a Lady, The Orientalist, Art of the…
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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, The Art of War, Wissam al-Jazairy’s Scream, with footnotes
The Scream is a composition originally created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The Norwegian name of the piece is Skrik, and the German title under which it was first exhibited is Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature). The agonized face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images in…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Khawla bint al-Azwar, Arab Muslim warrior in the service of the Rashidun Caliphate, with footnotes
Due to religious dictates it is very difficult to find classical Islamic art portraying people! To tell the story I have decided to try and make my own through AI. I hope I will eventually get it right! Thanks for your patience. The Rashidun Caliphate was the first caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.…
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