Guernica (Picasso) (redirect from Spanish Civil War atrocity painting)
oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting...
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To War is a painting by the Russian artist Konstantin Savitsky (1844–1905), completed in 1888. It belongs to the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg...
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conflicts. War or WAR may also refer to: War, West Virginia War Creek, a stream in West Virginia Warwickshire county in England, standard code War (band)...
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War (German:Der Krieg) is the title of two oil paintings on the same theme completed in quick succession in 1896 by the Swiss Symbolist painter Arnold...
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Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix"...
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Civil War) (1936) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Dalí created the piece to represent the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, having...
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Apotheosis of War (Russian: Апофеоз войны) is an 1871 painting by Russian war artist Vasily Vereshchagin. Following his completion of the painting, Vereshchagin...
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large oil painting completed in March 1919 by John Singer Sargent. It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World War, with a line...
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Speed is a painting by British artist Edmund Leighton, depicting an armored knight departing to war and leaving his beloved. The painting was exhibited...
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Smoleńska) is a painting by Jan Matejko finished in 1862. This painting was acquired by the Warsaw National Museum in 1924. During World War II it was looted...
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The Face of War (The Visage of War; in Spanish La Cara de la Guerra) is an oil painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, from 1940. It was painted...
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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...
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War is a painting created by Portuguese-British visual artist Paula Rego in 2003. War is a large pastel on paper composition measuring 1600mm x 1200mm...
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battle and the war as a whole, but became the focus for celebrating the stoicism and steadfastness of the British Army after Gibb's painting was exhibited...
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Vive L'Empereur! is a history painting made retrospectively by French artist Édouard Detaille in 1891, based upon the cavalry charge of the French 4th...
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The War (German: "Der Krieg"), sometimes known as the Dresden War Triptych, is a large oil and tempera painting by the German artist Otto Dix on four...
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Stalingrad is a 1972 oil painting by Danish artist Asger Jorn. It was first developed in 1956, and continued to be added to over the course of two decades...
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The Third of May 1808 (category Anti-war paintings)
traditional depictions of war, it has no distinct precedent, and is acknowledged as one of the first paintings of the modern era. According to the art historian...
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The Weeping Woman (category Anti-war paintings)
and muse. The Weeping Woman paintings were produced by Picasso in response to the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War and are closely associated...
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glory lead but to the grave". It is held by the Imperial War Museum in London, which describes it as "one of Nevinson's most famous paintings". Nevinson had...
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Freedom of Speech is the first of the Four Freedoms paintings by Norman Rockwell, inspired by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 State...
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George Jones (painter) (category British war artists)
after the Battle of Waterloo. After the war he resumed his art career, winning prizes and fame for his paintings of military engagements. He was elected...
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This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The record is approximately US$450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Leonardo...
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(French: L'Angélus) is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet, completed between 1857 and 1859. The painting depicts two peasants bowing...
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works, but had little commercial success. A number of his paintings were recovered after World War II and have been sold at auctions for tens of thousands...
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Military art (redirect from Battle painting)
to create artwork in the context of a specific war for the Japanese government, including sensō sakusen kirokuga ("war campaign documentary painting")...
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The Triumph of Death (category Anti-war paintings)
an oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted c. 1562. It has been in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1827. The painting shows a panorama...
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the religious wars and moved from the Southern Netherlands to the Dutch Republic (see Dutch Golden Age painting), Flemish Baroque painting flourished, especially...
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Massacre in Korea (category War paintings)
en Corée) is an expressionist painting completed on 18 January 1951 by Pablo Picasso. Picasso's third anti-war painting after Guernica and The Charnel...
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The Trench (Dix) (category War paintings)
as The War Picture or simply Der Krieg ("The War"), was an oil painting by the German artist Otto Dix. The large painting was made from 1920 to 1923, and...
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