Tag: war
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01 Work, The art of War, Henri-Charles-Etienne Dujardin-Beaumetz’s A la baïonnette/ With the bayonet, with Footnotes
Etienne Dujardin-Beaumetz offers us with this painting a very dynamic composition given by the receding perspective formed by the lines of the roofs at the top and the staggering of the characters at the bottom. The smoke effects and the large gestures of the soldiers accentuate the impression of movement. This battle took place in…
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02 Works, The art of War, Francesco Verio’s Journey in vain hopes, with Footnotes
More than 2,500 people have died or gone missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year, while approximately 186,000 people have arrived in European countries during the same period… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The art of War, Henri-Charles-Etienne Dujardin-Beaumetz’s General Lapasset burning his flags, with Footnotes
The artwork depicts General Ferdinand Auguste Lapasset, a French military leader during the Franco-Prussian War, engaging in an act of profound symbolism. In this poignant scene, General Lapasset is shown solemnly burning his country’s flags. It serves as a representation of defeat and surrendering to the enemy forces from Prussia. With contemplation etched on his…
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01 Work, The art of War, Emil Hünten’s Battle of Mars-La-Tour, August 16, 1870, with Footnotes
Battles of Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte, (Aug. 16–18, 1870), two major engagements of the Franco-German War in which the 140,000-man French Army of the Rhine, under Marshal Achille-François Bazaine, failed to break through the two German armies under General Helmuth von Moltke and were bottled up in the fortress of Metz. It was followed by the…
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01 Work, The art of War, Pierre Georges Jeanniot’s La ligne de feu/ The line of fire, with Footnotes
The Battle of Mars-la-Tour was fought on 16 August 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, near the village of Mars-La-Tour in northeast France. One Prussian corps, reinforced by two more later in the day, encountered the entire French Army of the Rhine in a meeting engagement and, following the course of battle, the Army of the Rhine…
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01 Work, The art of War, Toyen’s Na Zámku La Coste (At La Coste Castle), with Footnotes
Toyen’s life’s work occupies a unique position in the male-dominated Czech avant-garde art scene as well as in international Surrealism and art up to the 1970s. André Breton celebrated the Surrealist for her moving paintings and graphic work, which she steadfastly pursued between Prague, the »magical capital of Europe«, and her exile in Paris. TOYEN’s…
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01 Work, The art of War, Eliran Kantor’s Of Truth and Sacrifice, with Footnotes
Of Truth and Sacrifice is the ninth studio album by German extreme metal band Heaven Shall Burn, released on 20 March 2020 through Century Media Records. The song “Heaven Shall Burn” by Imminence explores themes of sacrifice, hopelessness, and inner turmoil. The lyrics depict a bleak and desperate world where the streets run red with…
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01 Work, The art of War, Richard Jack’s First World War, The Taking of Vimy Ridge, with Footnotes
As far as Urquhart could determine, the 10th Battalion men were not digging in, possibly because its command structure was in disarray after Boyle’s death. Hoping to help restore order, Urquhart approached the battalion’s second- in-command, Major Joseph MacLaren, and relayed Leckie’s orders about digging in. Seemingly distracted, MacLaren replied that “he was wounded in…
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01 Work, The art of War, Henri-Georges Chartier’s French infantry recapturing Fort Douaumont, with Footnotes
The French Second Army made a first attempt to recapture the fort in late May 1916. They occupied the western end of the fort for 36 hours but were dislodged after suffering heavy losses, mostly from German artillery and trench mortars nearby. The Germans stubbornly held onto the fort, as it provided shelter for troops…
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01 Work, The art of War, Antoine-Jean Gros’ Le combat de Nazareth/ The battle of Nazareth, with Footnotes
The scene represents the end of the fight where General Junot commanded the five hundred French, victorious at Nazareth, over ten thousand Turks. We see Junot a little to the left, riding a fiery white horse and slashing an enemy, after having brought down another with a pistol shot. Brigade leader Desnoyers gallops past the…
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02 Works, The art of War, Arno Rink’s Terror I and Terror II, with Footnotes
In this paintings Rink wanted to talk about the situation in a country with one of the most hateful and cruel dictators of the time: General Augusto Pinochet, who took power in 1973 in Chile (the USA helped, as is well known) and repressed his people with an iron fist. Many simply disappeared… Please follow…
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01 Work, The art of War, Samuel Bak’s Elegy III, with Footnotes
Many survivors of the Holocaust report that they heard a final plea from those who were killed: “Remember! Do not let the world forget.” To this responsibility to those they left behind, survivors have added a plea of their own: “Never again.” Never for the Jewish people. Never for any people. They hope that remembrance…
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01 Work, The art of War, Edith Birkin’s The Death Cart – Lodz Ghettord, with Footnotes
People carry bodies wrapped in white sheets to a horse-drawn cart in a city street. Other people look on from windows and doorways, their faces largely skull-like in appearance. The Lódz Ghetto was the second-largest ghetto established for Jews and Roma in German-occupied Poland after the Warsaw ghetto. Situated in the town of Lódz and…
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01 Work, The art of War, Eliran Kantor’s Erebus, with Footnotes
In Greek mythology, Erebus is the personification of darkness. In Hesiod’s Theogony, he is the offspring of Chaos, and the father of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Nyx (Night); in other Greek cosmogonies, he is the father of Aether, Eros, and Metis, or the first ruler of the gods. In genealogies given by Roman authors,…
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01 Work, The art of War, George Mayer-Marton’s Women with Boulders, with Footnotes
A desolate moorland, scattered with boulders, under a dark sky. A woman in a blue dress is seated, looking at something she holds in the palm of her hand. A Madonna-like figure with a grey cloak draped around her and covering her head, stands over her, holding a baby in her arms. In the distance…
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01 Work, The art of War, Lama Sabachthani’s Why have you forsaken me? with Footnotes
A scene of mourning. A group of Jewish men, women and children weep and mourn over a mound of corpses. In the background are further large heaps of corpses and burning buildings. The mourning men wear prayer shawls and pillbox hats and carry Torah scrolls; the women wear headscarves or shawls over their hair. Kestelman…
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01 Work, The art of War, Samuel Hirszenberg’s The Black Banner, with Footnotes
The painting shows the funeral of a hassidic rabbi, but simultaneously refers the viewer back to The Wandering Jew in the depiction of “the fearful eyes and bedazzled look among the mourners.” This painting “highlights Hirszenberg’s merging of the symbolic with the realistic, and alludes once again the angst of life in exile and eternal…
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01 Work, The art of War, John Olson’s Wounded Marines being evacuated during the Battle of Hue in February 1968, with Footnotes
The fighting in Hue City, Vietnam, was as intense and confusing as anything the Marines there had ever seen. It was mid-February 1968, and American and South Vietnamese forces were desperately trying to counter a surprise onslaught that became known as the Tet offensive. First Battalion, Fifth Marines had breached the city’s historic Citadel. Radio…
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04 Works, The art of War, Alan Moore’s Blind man in Belsen and SS guards burying dead, with Footnotes
Figure of a blind man, with head bandaged, walking through the Belsen concentration camp in Germany after liberation… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The art of War, Jack Leonard Shadbolt’s Behind the Wire, with Footnotes
The impact of war on artists can be profound. Terrible sights and awful experiences are transformed into works of art that honour acts of courage and move the soul, or they record immense cruelty in chilling images of man’s inhumanity to man. In February 1945, war artist Jack Shadbolt travelled to London, England, to assist…
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