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Rumors of War is a series of artworks by Kehinde Wiley examining equestrian portraiture in the canon of Western art history [1] culminating in a bronze monumental equestrian statue by the artist of an African-American young man (with dreadlocks in a ponytail, jeans ripped at the knees and Nike high-top sneakers), created in response to the statue of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart in ...
In response to the monuments, Wiley decided to create Rumors of War, a thirty foot tall statue of a young, black man sporting jeans, Nike high-tops and dreadlocks, [8] modeled on Monument Avenue's statue of J. E. B. Stuart. Rumors of War was unveiled in Times Square before being moved to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, a mile away from the J ...
The Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia, was the first installation on Monument Avenue in 1890, and would ultimately be the last Confederate monument removed from the site. [4] Before its removal on September 8, 2021, [5] the monument honored Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee, depicted on a horse atop a large marble base that ...
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Private donations, endowments, and funds are used for the support of specific programs and all acquisition of artwork, as well as additional general support.
The controversial Bronze Soldier of Tallinn monument, vandalized in protest of the Russian invasion on Ukraine, 12 April 2022.. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that had commenced in February 2022, a number of Soviet-era monuments and memorials were demolished or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced in former Eastern Bloc Soviet satellite states, as well as several ...
J. Equestrian statue of Stonewall Jackson (Charlottesville, Virginia) Stonewall Jackson Monument.
The Arts of Peace, by James Earle Fraser (2008) The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace are bronze, fire-gilded statue groups on Lincoln Memorial Circle in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Commissioned in 1929 to complement the plaza constructed on the east side of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the Arlington Memorial ...
Boxer at Rest. The Boy with the Leaking Boot. Guy Boyd (sculptor) Brahma from Mirpur-Khas. Bronze Statuette of Athletic Spartan Girl. Brunswick Lion. Buddha Maitreya (sculpture) The Burghers of Calais. Bust of Abd al-Rahman III, Cadrete.