Art That Portrays Wars And Battles

The painting depicts one of the most decisive victories of the American Revolution. Prior to the battle American morale was very low, even Washington was becoming doubtful. The continental army was forced out of New York and pushed across most of New Jersey on a desperate retreat induced by many British victories. The British troops that occupied the small town of Trenton were convinced that American morale was much too broken for any sort of attack… Washington had other plans. (Encyclopedia Brittanica)

Imagery is used to protest war, because it puts vivid images in the reader’s head of just how bad war really is. Stephen Crane describes in his poem “Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky” (Crane 2). This brings an image of someone’s loved one standing in a field and when the bullet breaks through their skin, the impact causes their hands to fly up. Using

The artwork being analyzed is called Nameless and Friendless and it was completed in 1857 by Emily Mary Osborn. The artwork was most likely created in England, where she was from. The media is oil paints on canvas, rather than the wood that was usually used. It is currently on display in Tate, Britain.

Guernica, the title of the painting, is a town in Basque Country, Spain. It was the target of terror bombing during the Spanish civil war because it was the northern bastion of the Republican resistance movement.

1510, right in the middle of the Renaissance. The painting is rectangular in shape and

The painting depicts one of the most decisive victories of the American Revolution. Prior to the battle American morale was very low, even Washington was becoming doubtful. The continental army was forced out of New York and pushed across most of New Jersey on a desperate retreat induced by many British victories. The British troops that occupied the small town of Trenton were convinced that American morale was much too broken for any sort of attack… Washington had other plans. (Encyclopedia Brittanica)

TXT- This image was inspired by the cruelty of the Spanish Civil War, especially the demolition of the town of Guernica by the Germans who bombed them and this was the result of the aftermath in a painting. Pg 257

The front of the painting shows three African American men in the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Each of the men are doing something different. Near the three men, are factories blowing out smoke. In the lower right hand corner, a man is being held back and dragged down by what seems to be a hand made from the smoke, showing that he is still doing work that he does not want to do. Below him are cotton fields, where slaves used to have to work and do hard labor with little to no pay. The man on the bottom left side is shown to also have the hand by him, watching his moves. He is in a pose where he is frustrated and seems to have given up on his dreams. Closer to the center, higher up, stands a third man, playing a saxophone. Music can symbolize freedom and awakening. Along the outer edges of the painting, the colors are dark browns, reds, and oranges. As the focus is drawn closer to the center, lighter colors such as yellow. Darkness, as an archetype, represents despair and the unknown while lightness shows hope, renewal and intelligence. The goals of success, exuberancy, and harmony showed hope and renewal in change in

It was painted and completed by Joseph Mallord William Turner in England around 1820 and is an oil on canvas painting created during the romanticism era. The story behind this piece is, when a slave ship set out on a voyage they would pack the ships full of slaves, and along the way the slaves would get sick and die so the crew would throw them over board to avoid paying cargo tax. In the painting viewers see a satanic sky and dark murky water with limbs sticking out of it (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). The brush strokes are all sort of slanted down to the right and some are even curled to depict waves that look to be swallowing up the slaves as well as the ship. This painting is very sublime because it has beautiful colors and form yet the meaning behind it all is

To be able to step up to the plate and be ready to fight for your country/nation is a very courageous thing to do. These next few pieces of art will depict not only the readiness to go into a fight, but also the action that goes with it, some more than others. Bernini’s David is a Life-sized marble sculpture

Kehinde Wiley’s “Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps”, is an oil painting on a canvas. The painting is of a black man with his face toward us riding on a horse across stones that are all different sizes. The stones have words on them and look like it was flat ground before but something like an earthquake shifted the ground. In the background behind the man and the horse is a red curtain with a tan design all over it. The man on the horse is also wearing a green camouflage looking outfit with yellow boots and a yellowish gold cape, and he has a white bandana on his head.

context such as race and gender, and the history of the painting. In addition, I will be

World War 1 art was first introduced when world leaders felt they would benefit by having artists on the front lines sketching and painting the scenes of warfare. They gathered eight daring artists determined to bring the aspects and details of war effort home. The artists sketched all from allied powers and central powers to the prisoners of war.

The first true war that was photographed and released was The Crimean War.  The military commission was used to get pictures for military intelligence. Panting’s were a tricky subject because a painter could be biased to one side or another. Say a battle was a draw in which both sides were equal in just about everything there death toll, ground gained , and canons lost could be falsified with paintings.

Another painting that I liked was by Harace Pippin and it was called The Ending of the War, Starting Home. This painting depicted the scene of a battle. The painting was very active. It depicted men running for cover and jumping over barricades. However, that not was intrigued me about this painting. What got my attention was actually the frame of the painting. Along the frame Pippin hand-carved 3D images of bayonets, bombs, grenades, helmets, knives, and tanks. It almost made it seem like the battle was spilling out of the painting and into the gallery. Pippin made his painting interesting by combining 2D and 3D art together, which I figured out