Tag: war
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01 Work, The Art of War, Fernando Cueto Amorsolo’s Hope in the Ruins of Manila, with footnotes
Sold for HKD 2,680,000 in Nov 2015 After years of occupation, the Battle of Manila began on February 3, 1945. The month-long campaign resulted in the death of over 100,000 civilians and the complete devastation of the city. It was the scene of atrocity after atrocity committed against Filipino civilians by the Japanese soldiers. Recalcitrant Japanese set…
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01 Work, The Art of War, John Steuart Curry’s Parade to War, Allegory, with footnotes
Painted in the years between the Great Depression and World War II, Parade to War, Allegory reflects many Americans’ apprehension about joining the looming conflict. John Steuart Curry transformed a celebratory parade into a gruesome scene, where young soldiers morph into skeletons. Beneath the streamers and waving flags, Curry portrays conflicting emotions. In the center…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Hugo Simberg’s The Wounded Angel, with footnotes
Two sullen boys carry an angel on a stretcher. The angel’s wing has been wounded, and there is a bandage over the eyes. This painting was voted Finland’s best-loved work of art, speaks to the viewer in countless ways – there are as many interpretations as there are viewers. This is probably exactly the intention…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Fernando Cueto Amorsolo’s Bataan, with footnotes
A woman with her head held up, as she kneels before a fallen soldier. Later named “Bataan”, this was Amorsolo’s silent protest against the Japanese invaders of World War II, and the Fall of Bataan in April 1942. From January 7 to April 9, 1942, Filipino and American forces were consolidated along the peninsula of…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Dunn, Harvey Thomas’ Street Fighting, with footnotes
Depicted is an American soldier in olive drab uniform firing his M1903 Springfield rifle with a trail of yellow fire coming out of the gun barrel. To the left of the soldier is the body of another American soldier lying face down on the street, presumably dead. Surrounding the soldiers are piles of debris from…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Edgar Degas’s Scene of War in the Middle Ages, with footnotes
In the painting nine female nudes are shot, or are being shot at, by 15th-century warriors on horseback who ride stirrupless horses with harnesses barely sketched in.This most curious composition was exhibited at the 1865 Salon when he was 31 as a history painting, Scene of War in the Middle Ages, but it makes no…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Daniel Enkaoua’s Le manteau noire/ The black coat, with footnotes
Sold for EUR 13,750 in Sep 2012 Daniel Enkaoua, French, b. 1962, an artist known for his dedication to the art of observation, has consistently explored figures, still life, and landscapes throughout his career. His work is characterized by a captivating blur that invites viewers to ponder the essence of his subjects. Enkaoua’s paintings, set against…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Witold Pruszkowski’s The death of Anhelli, with footnotes
Sold for zł20,000 PLN in December 2014 Anhelli is a prose poem written by Polish Romantic-era poet and dramatist Juliusz Słowacki in 1837 and published the following year in Paris. The poem was written in the spring of 1837 in an Armenian monastery known as Betcheszban (Resting Place of the Dead) in Ghazir, a town in…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Wang Yancheng’s Sans titre 05, with footnotes
Estimate for 500,000 – 800,000 HKD in Nov 2023 Wang Yan Cheng was born Jan 9th 1960, in the Guangdong province (southern tip of China). Studies at Shandong Academy of Fine Arts and receives his diploma in 1985, becomes Assistant professor there as of 1986. Wang Yan Cheng arrives in France (Saint-Étienne region) in 1989.…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Greg Rutkowski and Kalin Popov’s Digital Paintings, with footnotes
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01 Work, The Art of War, Ismail Shammout’s Halo of Light, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 137,500 in Oct 2018 In the present scene, a Palestinian Feda’i guerilla fighter is enshrined by a luminous white light, inferred by the title to be a luminous halo; the man rests beneath an olive tree. While simple in its depicted subjects, the scene is ripe with powerful symbolism and irony; as the work…
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01 Work, The Art of War, George Tooker’s Landscape with Figures II, with footnotes
Estimated for 80,000 – 120,000 USD in Nov 2023 Tooker’s figures are gaunt but muscled, delicately balancing the fragility of age with a sense of inner strength; the leftmost appears to be modeled directly after Domenichino’s St. Jerome . Their expressions are enigmatic, reflecting a groggy surprise as they turn to the light, resurrected from the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jeremy Mann’s The Death Angel, with footnotes
In the Bible death is viewed under form of an angel sent from God, a being deprived of all voluntary power. “The destroyer” kills the first-born of the Egyptians, and the “destroying angel” rages among the people in Jerusalem. The “angel of the Lord” is seen by David standing “between the earth and the heaven,…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sara Madandar’s A Common Thread, with footnotes
For sale for C$5,296 in November 2023 Let us Believe In… is a collection of life-size portraits depicting a strong, diverse group of women. Starting with photographic prints on canvas, I paint, collage, write, spray, and sew onto their portraits. Much of my work has deployed the aesthetics of clothing and bodies to portray my own…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Ismail Shammout’s Thirst, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 17,500 in Oct 2019 While thirst may sap the morale of troops on the battlefield, the lack of a safe water supply may force a population into exile and condemn crops and livestock to wither and die. To attack water is to attack an entire way of life… Ismail Shammout (1930 –…
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05 Works, The Art of War, Alain Provost’s Fragility, NEW FACE, Oceans, CORPUS and RENAISSANCE, with footnotes
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01 Work, The Art of War, Abed Abdi’s Expulsion from the Homeland, with footnotes
Sold for 10,625 GBP in April 2019 The Nakba (Arabic for ‘catastrophe’) in 1948 was a defining moment in Palestinian history that affected the life, culture and identity of the Palestinian people in immeasurable ways, and concurrently, the evolution of Palestinian art. Palestinian art was still in its early stages of development in the mid-1900s as…
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06 Photographs, The Art of War, Bojan Jevtić’s vision of a vision, with footnotes
Bojan Jevtic is a Serbian visual artist. Born in Belgrade, he has had a long, illustrious career. His artworks are in art book ” Masters of Contemporary Fine Art” with the artworks from other famous artists all over the world… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Ismail Shammout’s Crucifixion, with footnotes
Sold for 113,400 GBP in October 2020 Crucifixion is without question, a striking work. It is gripping and daunting, but in its abstraction, it is softened by form and a nuanced use of imagery. Shammout handles clear symbols of sacrifice and loss with a delicate sensitivity that makes what can be deeply uncomfortable and sensitive subject matter,…
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