Tag: war
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01 Painting, The art of War, André Fougeron’s Massacre at Sakiet, with footnotes
Sixty-eight Tunisian civilians were killed in a raid on the village of Sakiet Sidi Yousef in 1958. The attack was part of French repressions in neighbouring Algeria, and provoked condemnation around the world. Shocked by the event, de Francia dedicated this epic canvas to the innocent victims. Rather than attempting an accurate record, he used…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Abed Abdi’s Bride at the Refugee Camp, with footnotes
Sold for €10,000.00 in December 2021 Poverty is a strong driver of child marriage among Syrian refugees, while social protection programmes and educational opportunities for girls have played a protective role in Gaza. In both contexts, our findings underscore the multiple and intersecting negative effects of child marriage on girls’ health and bodily integrity, and point…
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01 Work, The Art of War, William Orpen’s Tanks, with footnotes
A view looking up to the underside of two tanks. The tanks are cresting a low rise, their treads rearing up towards the grey sky. Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish artist who worked mainly in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and…
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01 Work, 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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01 Work, The Art of War, Matthew Somerville Morgan’s The Storming Of Delhi, with footnotes
Thomas H. Sherratt’s original engraving and etching, The Storming of Delhi is based upon a design created by Matthew Somerville Morgan (M. S. Morgan), depicting the siege of Kashmiri Gate (Delhi) during the Uprising of 1857. By 14 September 1857 the British had about 9,000 men before the rebel-held city of Delhi. A third were…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jaswant Singh’s Mural Depicting 1919 Amritsar Massacre – Jallianwala Bagh, with footnotes
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919. A large, peaceful crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, British India, during annual Baishakhi fair, to protest against the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of pro-independence activists Saifuddin Kitchlu and Satyapal. In response to the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Payag’s Nasiri Khan Directing the Siege of Qandahar, with footnotes
The Siege of Kandhar by the artist Payag shows the detonation of mines that Mughal forces have laid under the walls of a Deccani fort. In the foreground a bejewelled general gestures grandly towards the flames and billows of smoke. These will destroy the fort’s outer walls and cause the defenders to capitulate. Mughal soldiers in…
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01 Mural, The art of War, Picasso Massacre in Korea, with footnotes
In the middle of a desolate landscape, with the ruins of destroyed buildings in the background, the drama of war against the civilian population: six soldiers are about to shoot a group of women and children. The military is portrayed as heartless robots, half-dressed with pieces of metal and helmets, while the innocent victims, naked,…
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01 Mural, The art of War, Picasso’s Guernica, with footnotes
On Monday, 26 April 1937, warplanes of the Nazi Germany Condor Legion, commanded by Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, bombed Guernica for about two hours. In his 30 April 1937 journal entry von Richthofen noted that when the squadron arrived “there was smoke everywhere” from the attack by three aircraft, and since nobody could see the…
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01 Painting, The art of War, Clive Branson’s bombed Women and Searchlights, with footnotes
Bombed Women and Searchlights was painted in response to the London Blitz which began in September 1940. Branson was then living in Battersea where he would have witnessed at first hand the devastating air raids. In this painting he employs surrealistic juxtapositions and unusual perspectives to imbue the painting with a startling visual intensity, while…
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01 Mural, The art of War, Haifa Subay’s Women and War, with footnotes
‘Pain and hope have two different meanings, but they are associated with every experience of motherhood that a woman goes through. In the face of the ongoing conflict and its impact on women and children, women bring about an invisible engagement for peace. Women can play a bigger role in formal peace talks. This proxy…
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01 Painting, The art of War, Leonard Henry Rosoman’s Bomb Falling into Water, with footnotes
As a member of the National Fire Service, Rosoman had first-hand experience of fighting fires during German bombing raids. He was stationed in the East End of London, which was especially badly hit. He explained that Bomb Falling into Water was ‘painted in 1942 when I was in the N.F.S. and was the result of…
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01 Painting, The art of War, Wyndham Lewis’ The Surrender of Barcelona, with footnotes
Lewis was working on this painting in the year of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The conflict in Spain was the setting for Lewis’s novel ‘The Revenge for Love’, which was published in 1937. However, Lewis denied any connection between this picture and the book. In 1950 Lewis wrote: ‘In the Surrender of…
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01 Painting, The art of War, Horacio Ferrer’s Madrid 1937 (Aviones negros), with footnotes
Ferrer had studied in Italy on a grant from the Junta de Ampliación de Estudios (Board of Advanced Studies). He spent one year there, between 1934 and 1935, studying, among other things, the fresco technique. It is also worth noting Ferrer’s early preferences and artistic knowledge; his library contained copies of French and German magazines…
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01 Painting, The art of War, Vasily Vereshchagin’s The Apotheosis of War, with footnotes
Apotheosis depicts a pile of human skulls set on the barren earth, the aftermath of a battle or siege. A flock of carrion birds are seen to be occupied with picking over the pile; some birds have already landed, while others are flying in or roosting in nearby trees. The shadow cast by the mound,…
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01 Painting, The art of War, Rocroi, the last third, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, with footnotes
The Battle of Rocroi, fought on 19 May 1643, was a major engagement of the Thirty Years’ War between a French army, led by the 21-year-old Duke of Enghien and Spanish forces under General Francisco de Melo only five days after the accession of Louis XIV to the throne of France after his father’s death.…
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1 Painting, The art of War, Francisco Goya’s The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid, or “The Executions”, with footnotes
A depiction of the execution of patriots from Madrid by a firing squad from Napoleon´s army in reprisal for their uprising against the French occupation on the second of May, 1808. The French soldiers are at the right of the composition, with their backs to the viewer. They aim their rifles at the Madrilenes who…
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1 Painting, The art of War, Alkis Keramidas’ The massacre of Distomo, Macedonia, with footnotes
On June 10, 1944, one of the most brutal events in all of World War II took place in the tiny village of Distomo on the Greek mainland. According to survivor testimony, Nazi SS troops went door to door and massacred 218 Greek civilians. Survivors said that the Nazis bayoneted babies in their cribs and…
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1 Painting, The art of War, Stanley Spencer’s Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, with footnotes
Spencer was commissioned to create this painting in April 1918 by the British War Memorials Committee. In his owns words Spencer wanted to show ‘God in the bare real things, in a limber wagon, in ravines, in fouling mule lines.’ Of those he depicts he said ‘during these nights the wounded passed through the dressing…
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1 Painting, The art of War, Howard Pyle’s The Shell, with footnotes
In his painting The Shell, Howard Pyle depicts the caves dug into a hillside as bomb shelters by families in Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the city’s Civil War siege. The great danger of these cave is described in detail in a first-hand account by William W. Lord, Jr. in “A Child at the Siege of Vicksburg,”…
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