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A work made against this background is the Allegory of war (Lempertz 16 November 2013, Cologne Lot 1243). The work is full of symbols of war and strife such as weapons, fighting animals, zodiac symbols of bad luck in the heavens, the furies , a burning city, the god of war and the battling troops in the background which all evoke the theme of ...
The painting is an allegory of the Dutch victory against the Spaniards during the battle of Gibraltar, that took place on 25 April 1607 in the context of the Eighty Years' War. The painting shows in the foreground a Dutch and a Spanish struggling between them by a wooden bar, while an English and a Venetian observe them.
Gassed (painting) General George Washington at Trenton; General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian; General Officers of World War I; Gettysburg Cyclorama; God Speed (painting) Going to Work; The Great Day of Girona; Battle of Grunwald (Matejko) Guernica (Picasso) Gustav Vasa Enters Stockholm 1523
Streeton's most famous war painting, Amiens the key of the west shows the Amiens countryside with dirty plumes of battlefield smoke staining the horizon, which becomes a subtle image of war. As a war artist, Streeton continued to deal in landscapes and his works have been criticised for failing to concentrate on the fighting soldiers.
War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet. War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet is an oil painting of 1842 by the English Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851). Intended to be a companion piece to Turner's Peace - Burial at Sea, War is a painting that depicts a moment from Napoleon Bonaparte's exile at Saint Helena.
The painting was made in reaction to the destruction of the Spanish town of Guernica by the air raid of the German Condor Legion on 26 April 1937. AedW I, pp. 332-337, 339 f., 343, 348; AedW II, pp. 38, 57, 299; Motif group: Bethlehemite infanticide; Motif group: War; Motif group: Images of horror
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Edward Ardizzone's pictures concentrated entirely on soldiers relaxing or performing routine duties, and were praised by many soldiers: "He is the only person who has caught the atmosphere of this war" felt Douglas Cooper, the art critic and historian, friend of Picasso, and then in a military medical unit. [48]