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"Woman's head
reddish brown hair” (detail)
Emil #Nolde
Watercolor on paper 1920
#FineArt #FigurativeArt #ArtHistory #Artlovers #GermanExpressionist
#GermanExpressionism #Art
“A Knight & Cupid before a castle door”
#EleanorFortescueBrickdale #Watercolor 1900
A knight & his steed bow their heads to cupid. At the hooves of the horse, human bones—the knight carries a crown, oak wreath & dragon head https://t.co/GfBLWwcCj4 #ArtLovers #ArtHistory #FineArt
1. In 1943 the Nazis sent French #Jewish #artist of Polish descent #DavidOlère to #Auschwitz to operate gas chambers & take valuables from prisoners. Post #WW2 he made this self-portrait signed with his prisoner ID # & red triangle F patch—designating a French Political Prisoner.
“Archangel Michael Overthrowing Lucifer”
Francesco Maffei
#Oilpainting on stone 1656
https://t.co/QvyZh56TmN
#Art #ArtHistory #Oilpainting #FineArt
#BaroquePainting #BaroqueArt #Baroque
"D-Day: The Assault"
Orville Fisher 1945
#Oilpainting
https://t.co/4KJjySAWjK
Captain Orville Norman Fisher was the official #warartist of the #CanadianArmy & the only Allied war #artist to land in #Normandy on #DDay, #June61944.
#ArtNews #ArtHistory #Painting #Art #Artlovers
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"Salad: A Cleaned-Up Machine Gun Nest, Bois de Belleau."
#ClaggettWilson 1919
#Watercolor & pencil on paper
US soldiers survey a German position obliterated by artillery fire. Wilson was in the Battle of Belleau Wood, a decisive #WWI battle—https://t.co/55SjxIoXn4
7.
"Front Line Stuff."
#ClaggettWilson 1919
#Watercolor & pencil on paper
This #painting is a tour de force when it comes to the #artist's watercolor technique! With two of his brothers lying wounded in a watery trench, a US soldier destroys a German position with grenades.
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"Runner Through the Barrage
Bois de Belleau, Chateau Thierry Sector
His Arm Shot Away, His Mind Gone."
#ClaggettWilson 1919
#Watercolor & pencil on paper
The #paintings from Wilson's "The War Portfolio of 1919" are prayers to the fallen & their families— don't forget them.
“God Bless #America”
Philip Reisman
#Oilpainting on masonite 1940
https://t.co/WLX3ahpHiW
The Polish #American #artist depicted a vendor selling patriotic banners on the streets of #NewYork's Lower East Side as the US entered #WW2.
#ArtHistory #AmericanPainting #SocialRealism
A detail from the 1940 #PanAmericanUnityMural in #SanFrancisco—https://t.co/xBs9bhV2Xw; #DiegoRivera depicted himself with actress #PauletteGoddard (then wife of #CharlieChaplin) holding the roots of a #CeibaTree, the #Mayan Tree of Life.
#ArtHistory #MexicanArt #SocialRealism