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Roland David Smith was born on March 9, 1906, in Decatur, Indiana and moved to Paulding, Ohio in 1921, where he attended high school. His mother was a school teacher and a devout Methodist; his father was a telephone engineer and part-time inventor, who fostered a reverence for machinery in Smith.
In particular the subject of the horrors of war occupied Jan Brueghel in the 1640s, when Europe was emerging from the Thirty Years' War. The long-hoped-for end of the war was achieved by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. A work made against this background is the Allegory of war (Lempertz 16 November 2013
The work is a 217 cm (85 in) × 211 cm (83 in) oil-on-canvas painting and weighs 44 kg (97 lb). The painting shows a seated female who represents peace being crowned with a laurel wreath by a woman who is clad in armour who represents war. Under her feet lies a man in armor with a sword, his hands wrapped in chains.
Pacifist artists also responded to the war in powerful ways: Mark Gertler's major painting, Merry-Go-Round, was created in the midst of the war years and was described by D. H. Lawrence as "the best modern picture I have seen" [5] and depicts the war as a futile and mechanistic nightmare.
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
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Consequences of War, also known as Horror of war, [1] was executed between 1638 and 1639 by Peter Paul Rubens in oil paint on canvas. It was painted for Ferdinando II de' Medici . Although commissioned by an Italian, art historians characterize both the work and the artist as Flemish Baroque .
An early work by British artist David Hockney, a painting depicting his well-known pool motif and not seen in public for more than 40 years, is headed for auction with an estimate of around $20 ...