Another fabulous Friday Afternoon Challenge for you: The Art of War!

[CTyankee]

Here are images immortalized by great artists for you to identify, both the artist and the war!

And as always, gentle folks, we do not cheat...
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[Brickbat]

1. Number 4 is

"Tube Shelter Perspective Liverpool Street Expansion" by Henry Moore. World War II.

[CTyankee]

2. sounds like you know your stuff about Moore!

[elleng]

3. Fabulous!

Never seen it!

[CTyankee]

10. I see my post in response to yours never got here!

Anyway, what I said was that this drawing by Moore resembles a lot of his sculpture. Look at the figures in the subway...

[elleng]

11. I see some resemblance,

but the 'solidity' missing; these look like they could fly away!

[CTyankee]

12. No, it is mostly the shape of the figures. Obviously, the figures are very elusive...hmm

[The Magistrate]

4. The First One, Sir

Is 'Surrender of Breda' by Velazquez.

Thirty Years War of Dutch war of Independence would be equally valid denomination of the conflict it occured in; things were pretty tangled then....

[CTyankee]

5. Velazquez has a remarkable ability to portray the faces picked out of the crowd...

the look of exhaustion of the young man in white and his lathered, exhausted horse. The young soldier with the rifle on his shoulder looking at the viewer with calm curiosity...

this is a wondrous painting. So much is going on here with the decorousness of the surrender agreement. Quite a wonderful scene is here given...

Have you been to the Prado?

[The Magistrate]

6. Never Been To The Prado, Sir

My time in Spain was confined pretty much to Barcelona, in the old 'Gothic Quarter', and that was long ago, when France still ran the place.

[CTyankee]

7. I found Barcelona, while interesting (certainly for the Gaudi works), was stuffed with tourists

and I am crowd averse (having fled both St. Mark's Sq. in Venice and St. Peter's in Rome) when the crowds got suffocatingly thick...

I adored Madrid, however. Not as many tourists and those 3 wonderful museums in walking distance to each other. I always say that traveling in Spain changed my life...

The "Gothic quarter" sounds interesting...must google...

[The Magistrate]

8. Back Then, Sir, Not Many Tourists

My only sight-seeing impulse was the Ramblas and the Hotel Continental, where Orwell was a militiaman in the street fighting in '37.

The area was ( I do not know if it still is, so to speak ) across the main way from the train station, so I sort of blundered into it without plan, needing a place to sleep pretty quickly. It preserved the medieval streets still; it was pretty much impassible to automobiles. Shops were mostly windowsills, rather than places you entered; the buildings were blank to the street and enclosed large courtyards. It was a poor district, the lodging I found was very cheap. All the stones were black, as I recall, nut I do not know if the color was native of just centuries of soot and grime.

[CTyankee]

9. sounds like what I encountered when my mother took me to Europe in the mid 50s. Europe

had not fully recovered from the war. London and Paris were still grim and sooty. I remember how sad Versailles looked. So different today!

But of course it was cheap as hell. Good time to be young and a tourist.

I read "Homage to Catalonia" on the plane to Madrid...your post reminds me of what he was saying about Barcelona and environs...

[elleng]

13. We were kind of like 'ships passing in the night,' eh?

October 4, 1957, did I ever tell you? Guess who ELSE was flying that night???

[ellisonz]

14. I got nothing but a kick.

P.S. Bigger images for the blind!

[IcyPeas]

15. well...

number 1 reminds me of a dutch master type painting

number 3 reminds me of a Goya (some of the faces in that painting look familiar)

wild guesses... and a kick.

number 6 is weird.

[CTyankee]

17. #3 is same era as Goya, but not Goya. #6 is a bit weird but the artist isn't at all.

#1 was guessed. See above. It is Velazquez, somewhat earlier than the Dutch masters. Interestingly, it portrays the Dutch surrendering to the Spanish at Breda, a town in Holland in 1625.

[burrowowl]

16. K&R

[CTyankee]

18. My goodness, where are my Turner, Degas and Veronese fans?

[pinboy3niner]

19. Aha! #5 - Scene of War in the Middle Ages, Degas

At the Musee d'Orsay.

[CTyankee]

20. I think I saw it at the MFA, in its Degas exhibit last year...

Hint: look at the light in #3...

[pinboy3niner]

24. The light made me think of Turner...

...but for the life of me, I couldn't find it anywhere--not even among a display of 398 Turners.

Ah, well. There's always next Friday.

[CTyankee]

25. It is called "Field of Waterloo" and I ran across it quite back accident, in a book of John Updike's

art essays. You can google the image.

Sad to say, I will be out of town next Friday. So no Challenge until the 31st.

[pinboy3niner]

21. #6 : Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto by Paolo Veronese nt

[CTyankee]

22. Hooray!

[CTyankee]

23. Answers are here

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