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As an example of nation's efforts to document war events, official Japanese war artists were commissioned to create artwork in the context of a specific war for the Japanese government, including sensÅ sakusen kirokuga ("war campaign documentary painting"). Between 1937 and 1945, approximately 200 pictures depicting Japan's military campaigns ...
Example of art that could express the feelings of the first-person narrator. John Heartfield: War and corpses - The last hope of the rich, 1932 Photomontage. Visual arts AedW I, p. 170; Motif group: War; Example of art that could express the feelings of the first-person narrator. Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, 1559
The Greeks used architecture, pottery, and funerary objects as different mediums through which to portray death. These depictions include mythical deaths, deaths of historical figures, and commemorations of those who died in war. This page includes various examples of the different types of mediums in which death is presented in Greek art.
This scythe has invited comparison with the Grim Reaper, the famous harbinger of death. This emphasizes the farmer's past as a soldier, and war's connection to death. The presence of the veteran harvesting the wheat parallels the massive loss of life in the American Civil War and the "harvesting" of bodies that took place.
[7] The series follows a wider European tradition of war art and the examination of the effect of military conflict on civilian life—probably mostly known to Goya via prints. This tradition is reflected especially in Dutch depictions of the Eighty Years' War with Spain, and in the work of 16th-century German artists like Hans Baldung .
This category is for works of art on the theme of death, with a title referring to death, or depicting the moment of someone's death. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
Death and Life; Death and the Maiden (Baldung) Death and the Maiden (Schiele) Death and the Miser; The Death of Actaeon; The Death of Adonis (Rubens) The Death of Balder; The Death of Captain James Cook (Zoffany) The Death of Chevalier Bayard; The Death of Chione; Death of Cook; Death of Dragut; The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on ...
Death and Life (German: Tod und Leben, Italian: Morte e Vita) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. The painting was started in 1908 and completed in 1915. [ 1 ] It depicts an allegorical subject in an Art Nouveau (Modern) style.