Is it possible to make a beautiful photograph of a war-torn landscape ...
WEBDec 9, 2014 · Instead of presenting brash, heavy-handed visualizations of the magnitude of war, Arnold’s resulting images give viewers a quiet insight into how a landscape can retain its beauty despite the severity of its human impact.
Common Ground for the War-Torn and Weary - Landscape …
WEBSep 21, 2017 · These images take a 1:1 approach at connecting museum-goers to thorny and unfamiliar global conflicts (dowry violence in South Asia, refugee camps in Africa, etc.) through mostly black and white portraits of the people living them every day. Approximately 20 landscape photographs offer added layers of …
Marion Greenwood and Anne Poor: The Women Artists of the WWII Art …
WEBJun 4, 2019 · Across the world, Anne Poor sketched bandaged men being lifted into planes on a Pacific airfield. One drawing features a soldier draped over a medic in a desperate, dance-like embrace. Greenwood...
Artist re-imagines war-torn landscapes to see what we’ve lost
WEBJan 22, 2014 · There is the art of war, and then there is war art. Some artists glorify the victory of the battle while others offer commentary on the destruction. Goya’s The Disasters of War series was a protest against violence, and in the first half of the 20th century, Kathe Kollwitz humanized the tragedy of war.
Surrealism Against the War: The Shooting Gallery and Hide, War ... - post
WEBOct 2, 2019 · The visual material occupies two distinct registers, featuring explicitly political and anti-militaristic caricatures by Adolf Hoffmeister, Antonín Pelc, and František Bidlo, as well as more lyrical drawings marked by fissures and fragmentation, by Toyen and her close artistic collaborator Jindřich Štyrský. Toyen.
Modern Times: British Prints, 1913–1939 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBTheir subjects—which included factories and underground trains, war-torn landscapes and “dazzle ships,” leisure activities, and the countryside as both idealized rural landscape and one transformed by urban expansion—reveal an interest in speed, motion, labor, industrialization, technology, and modernity broadly considered.
The coming storm: American landscape painting and the Civil War
WEBNov 13, 2012 · Poems, speeches, sermons, and letters invoked stormy weather, volcanic eruptions, and celestial events to describe the war and its consequences, and this imagery found its way into landscape painting in a manner that was immediately recognizable to …
Tobias Bernstrup’s Dark, Dystopian World of War-Scarred Landscapes
WEBSep 24, 2014 · Bernstrup’s fascination with and indebtedness to video games is apparent in the work’s computer-modeled imagery and its hyper-real aesthetic. It opens with a scene of an airplane flying high in a cloudy sky and releasing a …
TREASURED LANDSCAPES: National Park Service Art Collections …
WEBThey depict officers, enlisted men, and townspeople within the landscape engaged in daily and sometimes mundane activities. There are several renditions of the Revolutionary War hero, General Washington.
Devour the Land: War and American Landscape ... - Harvard Art …
WEBSep 17, 2021 · Explore the impacts of military activity on the American landscape—and the ways in which photography supports activism in response to these effects. Devour the Land shines a light on the unexpected and often hidden consequences of militarism on habitats and well-being in the United States.