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Hiroshima, also known as ANT 79, is a painting by the French painter Yves Klein, created in 1961. Through the use of both anthropometry and monochromy, the work pays tribute to the victims of Hiroshima, affected by the atomic bomb dropped on August 6, 1945, by the United States. The painting refers to the imprints of the burned bodies on the ...
Dying lovers embrace and mothers cradling their dead children. Each painting portrays the inhumanity, brutality, and hopelessness of war, and the cruelty of bombing civilians. [2] The people depicted in the paintings are not only Japanese citizens but also Korean residents and American POWs who suffered or died in the atomic bombings as well ...
It also contained holdings from Austrian collections. Initially, in August 1943, art treasures from Austrian churches, monasteries and museums were transferred into the mines for safekeeping, followed by, starting in February 1944, a stock of about 4,700 works of stolen art from all over Europe. [1]
Hiroshima Museum of Art 063 15.6 × 24.9 More images: 1883 House with a red roof [35] Private Collection 064 16.2 × 25 More images: 1883 Houses between trees [45] Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow 065 16.5 × 25.4 More images: 1883 Watering can at Le Raincy [46] National Gallery of Art, Washington. D.C. 066 24.4 × 15.5 More images ...
One exhibition displayed art that should be eliminated (“The Degenerate Art Exhibition”), while the other promoted, by contrast, the official aesthetic (“The Great German Art Exhibition”). In Europe, other totalitarian regimes adopted a similar stance on art and encouraged or imposed an official aesthetic, which was a form of Realism ...
In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their Vienna home after Austria was annexed into ...
"The person who bought the painting for $1.4 million already got a great bargain," Mark Winter, an authentication expert, tells the Times. "We don't discover new paintings by Rembrandt every day."
Nuclear art was an artistic approach developed by some artists and painters, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. László Moholy-Nagy, Nuclear II, 1946 (Milwaukee art museum) Conception and origins