Sentences with phrase «of war painting»

This is one of her war paintings; she was responding to the horrors of the Vietnam war and this particular one [looks] like a rocket, going up with these bloodied bodies.
He also agreed to regular daily concerts at the gallery, organised by the pianist Myra Hess, and at the Tate Britain show visitors will hear Chopin's Fantaisie - Impromptu in C sharp minor — as well as Beethoven and Bach — echoing elegantly and urgently through a room full of war paintings such as Paul Nash's Battle of Britain.

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The burger wars had bitten into Harvey's and many Cara restaurants desperately needed a fresh coat of paint.
In June, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne readied skeptical Britons for the deepest hack to public spending since the Second World War by painting an almost utopian picture of the Canadian experience.
(Saab had plenty of green paint left over from the war.)
From ancient cave paintings in Spain, to the war chronicles of Julius Caesar, stories — whether written, visual, or verbal — have long been used to show, tell, and convince.
Look at the paintings that adorn this room — scenes of the Great War.
«There are people that want to try to paint the United States and its allies like Australia as being against China in some sort of rerun of the Cold War,» Turnbull told reporters.
Around 28 graves, of Australian war dead, were graffitied with blue paint on Saturday night.
Yes those extremists try to paint the US as the Great Satan who's on a holy war against Islam, but that's not a pill swallowed by the majority of the muslim world.
«Perhaps World Wars are the black spots necessary for the perfection of the divine painting» (p. 51).
The painting is a terrible prophecy of the transvaluation of all values which Nietzsche proclaimed and which World War I was soon to visit upon Europe.
It is through the experience of his own body that he painted erotic pictures, and it is through his own physical imagination, heightened by sexual experience, that he painted the war pictures.
painting all Muslims with the same brush is just wrong Bush said God told him to go to war in Iraq - that means Bush was lying or insane b / c God did not tell Bush to kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqies just to get one man.
David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.
«I was painting spaceships, heroes and comic books, and drawing all this kind of fantasy art, and Star Wars was everything.
Painted in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, it then represented a new line for Picasso, whose abstract techniques have done more to influence 20th century painting than that of any other artist.
Watching a World War Two battle re-enactment of soldiers running across muddy wasteland and tanks firing in to the night sky, paints a much clearer picture than anything you can read from an exercise book.
While maybe not massively groundbreaking, or as visually compelling as those paintings that are famous for being an homage to victims of everyday horrors reported in the media (Goya's The Third of May 1808 springs to mind), the exhibition is in keeping with the museum's focus on the impact of war on the lives of ordinary people, and a welcome accompaniment to the excellent experience on offer at the museum.
Republican mayoral candidate Joseph Lhota said if he could turn back time, he would not have waged war with the Brooklyn Museum over a dung - covered painting of the Virgin Mary while serving as Rudy Giuliani's deputy mayor.
It is almost inconceivable that a political party in Britain should use this type of language, which does nothing less than paint a picture of class war.
Ø in 2011, Philip C. Smith, a highly decorated Korean War combat veteran and well - known figure in Schuyler County government and veterans» affairs; Ø in 2012, J. Arthur «Archie» Kieffer, a World War II combat veteran and a widely admired fixture in Chemung County government as the Chemung County historian; Ø in 2013, Painted Post Mayor and World War II combat veteran Roswell L. «Roz» Crozier, Jr.; Ø in 2014, Anthony J. «Tony» Specchio, Sr., a distinguished Korean War veteran and widely respected for his long - standing and active service to veterans and government in Watkins Glen and throughout Schuyler County; and Ø in 2016, P. Earle Gleason, a lifelong Yates County resident and long - time director of the Yates County Veterans» Service Agency.
«There is a certain amount of air war going on about the consequences and obviously the BBC will paint this bleak picture which I don't think is justified.
Cuomo, drawing from a $ 35 million campaign war chest, has bought a significant amount of air time on news and sports programs to run spots painting a negative picture of his GOP opponent, including one that criticizes Astorino for allegedly putting relatives on the public pay roll, saying it's Christmas in July.
If the GOP can win the PR war by painting MoveOn as a group far out of the mainstream, it could make it more difficult for Democrats to take money or other support from the group.
The resolution — approved by 41 of the 51 council members, with eight voting «no» and two abstaining — bizarrely paints the 72 - year - old imprisoned and unrepentant leader of the terrorist FALN (Fuerza Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, Spanish for Armed Forces of National Liberation) as a «decorated Vietnam War veteran and community activist» who received a «disproportionate» 55 - year prison sentence for his crimes.
Something the public loves to hate in its political cabals battling to run the country from the thick of Westminster's guerrilla territories, and something our war - painted politicos on all sides perennially condemn as an obstruction to policy - building, while sharpening their poison darts in the undergrowth.
Cuomo, drawing from a $ 35 million dollar campaign war chest, has bought a significant amount of air time on news and sports programs to run spots painting a negative picture of his GOP opponent, including one that criticizes Astorino for allegedly putting relatives on the public pay roll, saying it's Christmas in July.
This Week in World War I: October 17, 1914 The cover wrap of the issue has a painting of an armored car, charging into — surely not running away from!
Jackson Pollock, for instance, used drums of World War II surplus paints for his splashiest effects, and he often added texture by mixing in things such as cigarette butts.
Don't let the name scare you, of course this isn't just a paint brush, although, a fierce contour can be considered war paint in some cases.
But seriously guys, this is a highly rated WWII flick and through two sisters, it paints the picture of the women's war.
Assemble and paint miniature figurines of war mechs.
The Search paints a compelling portrait of a war - torn nation but labours its points too heavily, its gait stiff and lumbering where The Artist was joyfully fleet of foot.
However, his work was interrupted by the Korean War, for which he did two years service in Germany; his time there was mainly spent putting on Soldier Shows, which, as he would later remark, gave him his introduction to show business.While working on Venice, a 28 - minute documentary that juxtaposed contemporary views of the city with paintings by the masters, Ivory was introduced to art from India's golden age.
The film tries to paint in shades of gray with vague criticisms of the war on drugs, but the absurdity of its he - man Everyman plot ends up turning its moral palette a muddy brown.
Some abolitionist works like «Uncle Tom's Cabin» could paint slavery as a form of captivity, but the canonical captives of antebellum American literature were white women kidnapped by Indians, who after the Civil War were often replaced by freed slaves as objects of superstitious terror.
Not only does this film resurrect old Cold War red menace paranoia to paint the villainous Decepticons as Commies, but it also evokes a lot of contemporary xenophobia towards a vague notion of what lies in the Middle East.
Disco and Atomic War (In Russian, English, Estonian and Finnish with subtitles) Cold War Era mockumentary painting a humorous picture of what life was like behind the Iron Curtain for citizens of Estonia being constantly subjected to Communist propaganda.
It is never made unequivocal that either of these are in fact the offspring of the pair, but the framing of the opening funeral in one scene, and later, the way MacBeth applies war paint to the boy - soldier, firm but delicate, laced with unspoken pride, seems to imply such.
A visually wonderful animation made with gorgeous colors and a simple design in watercolor like the style of Chinese painting, and in addition to a great score it finds a most delicate balance between refreshing humor and themes like war, honor and the bravery of women.
For someone who'd only read about military conquest in history textbooks, Steven Spielberg's World War II painted the missing horrors and chaos of war with his opening D - Day sequence on the beaches of NormanWar II painted the missing horrors and chaos of war with his opening D - Day sequence on the beaches of Normanwar with his opening D - Day sequence on the beaches of Normandy.
Below, on Charlie Rose, she also talks about how she digs back into the Holocaust (as she did for one of her favorite roles as an Mossad spy in John Madden's «The Debt») in order to play elderly Jewish woman Maria Altmann, who 60 years after she fled Vienna during World War II, fought to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting «Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I.» The Weinstein Company now opens Simon Curtis's «Woman in Gold,» co-starring Ryan Reynolds, on April 1.
Joining them are a splattering of repeat Splatoon sets featuring intrepid squid kids and paint blots to help start your own home screened turf war.
The Huntsman: Winter's War gets a second trailer that paints the Snow White spinoff as a grand (if also silly) helping of fantasy spectacle.
One of Disney's downloadable creations for Infinity 3.0 is a paint turf war mini-game called «Squid Wars».
The year is 1940, and Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton) needs to make some money to help support herself and her starving - artist husband Ellis (Jack Huston), a wounded veteran who paints the sort of dark, expressionistic work of the horrors of war that nobody wants to buy at this time.
And it is in reality the easy excitement of seeing such a lot of just right actors in combination that makes «Infinity War» — an «Ocean's Eleven» in hyper pressure — paintings.
Dawn of War III The Story Behind Announcement Trailer - Learn how Axis Animation and director took inspiration from classical paintings to build the game's brooding expository cut scenes.
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