Tag: war
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04 Works, Welcoming Summer 2025 by Paul Gustav Fischer, Slim Aarons Jess Cochrane and Andre Gittelson Gisson, with footnotes
Welcoming summer can involve a variety of activities, from enjoying outdoor adventures and seasonal flavors to incorporating summer themes into your home and wardrobe. The transition to summer is a time of warmth, sunshine, and a sense of freedom, often associated with positive emotions like happiness and fun… Please follow link for full post
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03 Paintings, Luo Zhongli’s Crossing the River, with footnotes
Luo Zhongli (born in 1948) is a contemporary Chinese painter and educator. He has a deep affection for rural China and its residents, which have remained a major theme in his body of work… Please follow link for full post
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12 Works, Today, March 25th. is artist Cherubino Cornienti’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #83
Cherubino Cornienti (March 25, 1816 – May 12, 1860) was an Italian painter, active in a Romantic style mainly in Northern Italy. When he was early 12 years of age, he was admitted to the Brera Academy. In 1835, he participated in the annual exhibition at the Academy… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Gean Smith’s Horses Escaping Wildfire, with footnotes
Sold for $100.00 in June 2022 Gean Smith was a painter and illustrator whose work is especially focused on horses. Gean Smith was born in New York state and moved to Chicago in 1871, where he established a studio until 1884. The next year, he moved to New York City and worked there until 1923, when he settled…
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82 Works, The Art of War, Francisco Goya’s “The Disasters of War Series”, with Footnotes
Between 1808 and 1814 the Spanish, the Portuguese and English fought Napoleon’s France in the Peninsular War. In the first part of Goya’s series we witness the scenes of war… Please follow link for full post
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02 Works, The Art of War, Firelei Báez’s Patterns of Resistance, and Frank Angels’ The Souvenir of Paris, with Footnotes
Works dedicated to the marches and protests that broke out across Europe and North America… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sir John Everett Millais’ The Order of Release, with Footnotes
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1720-1788) was defeated by the English at Culloden on 16 April 1746 and many of his supporters were imprisoned. The subject of this picture is the release of one of these Jacobite rebels from prison. The rebel’s wife, supporting their small child and comforting her exhausted, wounded husband, hands an order of release…
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15 Works, The amorous game, Fifteen artists imbedded with Francesca de Rimini et de Paolo Malatesta, with Footnotes #101
Dante tells the story of Paolo and Francesca, lovers as famous and ill-fated as Hero and Leander, Eloise and Abelard or Romeo and Juliet… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Stani Nitkowski’s Untitled, with Footnotes
Stani Nitkowski (La Pouëze, 29 May 1949 – id., 2 April 2001) was a French painter. Born to a father of Polish origin, he arrived in Anjou to work in the slate quarries. Stani Nitkowski found himself, at 23, in a wheelchair due to myopathy. Quickly abandon abstraction and start drawing in ink. He exhibited for…
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15 Paintings, British Artists at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, the Edwardian period, with footnotes
British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century lasted during the reign of King Edward VII (1901–10). The Pan-imperial, international, and transatlantic character of British art in that complex period, considered the impact of new technologies—such as electrification, the motor car, recorded sound, and cinema—on painting, sculpture, photography, and the decorative arts. It’s emphasis…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Margaret Gillies’ Sorrow and Consolation, with Footnotes
Sold for GBP 2,750 in Nov 2010 In the 1820s Margaret Gillies (1803-1887), was a pupil of Frederick Cruikshank, a Scottish miniature painter. During the first two decades of her career Gillies made large miniature portraits, and some subject compositions, that were exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists. She produced…
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1 Work , The Art of War, Philip Francis Stephanoff’s An armourer’s shop, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 1,008 in Jul 2022 Philip Francis Stephanoff, sometimes Francis Philip Stephanoff (1787/88–1860) was an English painter. He was born in Brompton Row, London. His father, Fileter N. Stephanoff, was a Russian who settled in England and worked painting ceilings and stage scenery, until he committed suicide around 1790; his mother Gertrude Stephanoff…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Kent Monkman’s Welcoming the Newcomers, with Footnotes
The truism that (art) history is written by the victors has a particular relevance to the narratives and images created during the heyday of European colonial empires in the Americas. Sculptures and paintings made from the beginning of contact through to the twentieth century show Indigenous North Americans as figures who are destined to fade…
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01 Work, Jan Sluijters Junior’s Cairo Market in Centrum , with footnotes
Estimated for Estimate $2,700-$3,400 in Jun 2023 Traffic congestion is a serious problem in Cairo with large and adverse effects on both the quality of life and the economy. In addition to the time wasted standing still in traffic, time that could be put to more productive uses, congestion results in unnecessary fuel consumption, causes additional…
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01 Painting, Arno Rink’s Men II, with footnotes
Ákos Birkás is known for his Heads series, his abstract ovals painted as a programme from the mid-eighties up till the late nineties, comprising nearly two hundred pieces in all. Ákos Birkás was born in Budapest in 1941. Between 1959 and 1964, he studied painting at the Hungarian College of Fine Arts, and after obtaining his…
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04 Works, The Art of War, Ana Dias’s Native American Women Warrior’s Headdress, with footnotes
One of the most recognizable symbols of Native American Indian culture is the traditional Indian headdress, also known as a feathered war bonnet. Although it is easily recognizable, it is important to note that not all Native American tribes created or wore headdresses… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Leonardo da Vinci’s Alma’s Triumph at The Battle of Anghiari, with footnotes
The Battle of Anghiari was fought on 29 June 1440, between the forces of Milan and the League of some Italian states led by the Republic of Florence in the course of the Wars in Lombardy. The battle was a victory for the Florentines, who secured their domination of central Italy. More on The Battle of Anghiari“Alma’s Triumph…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Georges Clairin’s Le Carnage, with footnotes
Georges Clairin trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and became known for grand historical paintings, Symbolist themes, and portraits. Le Carnage may draw from extravaganzas he witnessed in Morocco that involved hundreds of Arab horsemen in mock equestrian battles. This painting was among several of his large compositions of anecdotal dreamscapes set in exotic surroundings…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Fritz Burmann’s Lamentation, with footnotes
Fritz Burmann was born in 1892 in Westphalian Wiedenbrück. From 1909-12 he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy under August Deusser, becoming his master student, and at the Academy in Munich under Heinrich Knirr. This was followed by study trips through Europe, before he received a teaching position at the academy in Königsberg in 1926. In 1936…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Francisco Goya’s Escena de guerra (War scene), with footnotes
Scene from the Spanish war of independence (between 1808 and 1812) Francisco Goya was a talented Spanish painter and printmaker, and is considered one of the last of the Old Masters of painting, as well as the first of the moderns. He began his apprenticeship in painting at the age of 14, and his talent was…
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