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Guernica ( Spanish: [ɡeɾˈnika]; Basque: [ɡernika]) is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. [1] [2] It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. [3] It is exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. [4]
Going to Work is a 1943 oil painting by the English artist L. S. Lowry . Originally commissioned as a piece of war art by the War Artists Advisory Committee, it depicts crowds of workers walking into the Mather & Platt engineering equipment factory in Manchester, north-west England. The painting now hangs in the Imperial War Museum North.
Alma mater. School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, 1950) [1] Occupation. Painter. Known for. Expressionist paintings. Spouse. Janet Neiman ( née Byrne) [1] LeRoy Neiman (born LeRoy Leslie Runquist, June 8, 1921 – June 20, 2012) was an American artist known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings and screenprints of ...
artnews .com. ISSN. 0004-3273. OCLC. 586878190. ARTnews is an American art magazine, based in New York City. It covers visual arts from ancient to contemporary times. It is the oldest and most widely distributed art magazine in the world. ARTnews has a readership of 180,000 in 124 countries.
An article from the Wilmington Star News in 2009 by Ben Steelman: Further reading. Gallatin, Albert Eugene. Art and the Great War. (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1919). Cornebise, Alfred. Art from the trenches: America's uniformed artists in World War I. (A & M University Press, 1991). Harrington, Peter, and Frederic A. Sharf. "A Splendid Little War".
In 2002, American artist Jack Daws created an homage to the painting. Entitled Origins of the World, it is a collection of various photographs of vulvas, taken from pornographic magazines, and framed in montage. The British artist Anish Kapoor created an installation in 2004 called L'Origine du monde, which references Courbet's painting.
The Battle of Poitiers in 1356, in a manuscript of Froissart's Chronicles of c. 1410. Military art is art with a military subject matter, regardless of its style or medium. The battle scene is one of the oldest types of art in developed civilizations, as rulers have always been keen to celebrate their victories and intimidate potential opponents.
Morton Künstler (born August 28, 1927) [1] is an American artist known for his illustrative paintings of historical events, especially of the American Civil War. He was a child prodigy, who, with encouragement from his parents, became a skilled artist by the time he was twelve. Today he is considered the "best-known and most respected ...