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Vija Celmiņa was born on October 25, 1938, in Riga, Latvia. [5] Upon the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940, during World War II, her parents fled with her and her older sister Inta [6] to Germany, then under the Nazi regime; after the end of the war, the family lived in a United Nations supported Latvian refugee camp in Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg.
Nirvana painting, colour on silk 絹本著色仏涅槃図 kenpon chakushoku Butsu nehan zu: 1274: Onomichi: Jōdo-ji: 174.5 centimetres (68.7 in) by 133.5 centimetres (52.6 in) Nirvana painting, colour on silk 絹本著色仏涅槃図
After the March 2011 accident that caused three nuclear reactors to melt down at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan, there have been numerous responses by contemporary Japanese artists, including Shigenobu Yoshida, Tatsuo Miyajima, Shimpei Takeda, Fuyuki Yamakawa, Iri and Toshi Maruki, and Hiroshima bomb survivor, Tadasi Tonoshiki. [12]
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 ...
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The U.S. bombs that laid waste to Hiroshima on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, and to Nagasaki three days later, changed the course of history and left Yahata and other survivors with deep scars and ...
The Hiroshima Museum of Art (ひろしま美術館, Hiroshima Bijutsukan) is an art museum founded in 1978. It is located in the Hiroshima Central Park in Hiroshima , Japan. Collections
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