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Dulce et Decorum est - a beautiful poem . truly a piece of art .........
... the tombstones of dead soldiers. This concept when set against the stark reality of war and the utter waste of human life; war seems ... begins. The content of this poem is based upon war and tragedy. Wilfred Owen tries to show the harsh reality of war, to ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
Allegories of Blood: Comparing Picasso's Guernica to Gericault's Raft of the Medusa
... officers who took the lifeboats. To capture the reality of the piece Gericault questioned survivors and crew, littered ... of the atrocities of war; people screaming and strewn limbs. While many of these interpretations are derived from the artist's sketches of ...
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The Dynamic from Conceptions to Experiences in Early Art and the Characterization of Greek Art in the Classical Era.
... after a victory over an opposing army: soldiers presenting prisoners of war to their king, charioteers and foot soldiers marching, the ... bears this conceptual view of reality is the Sumerian Standard of Ur (c. 2,700 BC). On either side of this object are ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
Pillars of Eternity: Comparing the Ashoka Pillars of India to the Column of Trajan by the Romans (Complete w/Works Cited and Endnotes)
... of the monument is intricately carved and decorated to portray the spoils of war captured from the Dacians. 22 The top of ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
Anzac Square - The Nurse and Soldier
... as a war memorial because it successfully evokes feelings of national pride and reality, but ... of relics have been set below the actual sculpture to make the subject of war more realistic. These relics include some letters and photographs of actual war ...
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From Realism to Modernism
... and therefore better, ways of reaching the same end. In essence, the Modern Movement argued that the new realities of the 20th century were ... De Stijl (The Style). This started at the time of the First World War. De Stijl was not limited just to painting; ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
Guernica
... ] Tankard, Alice Doumanian. Picasso's Guernica after Ruben's Horrors of War. Philadelphia: The Art Alliance Press,1984 ... of reality. There's no danger then, anyway, because the idea of the object will have left an indelible mark" (Barr 16). The bombing of ...
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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
... abstraction of the mind. Frequently dreams are said to portray events and images that are highly unlikely to occur in physical reality. ... France in the second Treaty of Basel. Spain was again entering war in 1796 when with the Treaty of Jan Ildefonso Spain ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
Jews of Germany
... of Britain from Palestine; and establishment of a "Hebrew kingdom from the Euphrates to the Nile." Although every effort was made to acheive these goals, in reality ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
Anthony Van Dyck's painting: "Rinbaldo and Armida"
... of war in the story, but the account of two characters and their love for one another. Rinaldo and Armida is a rich and vibrant interpretation of ... of the European Baroque." The Baroque period, an attitude of intense drama and a mix of illusion and reality ...
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