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A-level: Ibrahim El-Salahi, Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams
How would you paint a picture of something that’s not quite representable… like the sound of voices chanting, a spiritual vision, a childhood memory, or a dream that you can’t remember?
A-Level: Sample set of works for War
Whether responding to events in ancient Rome or contemporary Iraq, these artworks all take war as their theme.
A-Level: Haniwa Warrior
These expressive funerary objects evolved from simple clay cylinders into animal, human, and building forms.
A-Level: Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace
Complete mayhem! The violent scenes of this remarkable handscroll meld grisly horror with morbid humor.
A-Level: British Art and Literature During WWI
Britain was at war, and its artists and writers represented a broad range of experiences.
A-Level: Art in Nazi Germany
The Nazis organized two exhibitions in 1937: one glorified “Aryan” art, and the other condemned everything else.
A-Level: Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808
A sinister tale of bloodlust and nepotism led to the tragic events Goya depicts in “the first modern painting.”
A-Level: Francisco Goya, And there’s nothing to be done from The Disasters of War
This print wasn’t made public until long after Goya’s death, for fear of exposing his controversial political views.
A-Level: Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
Bare-breasted with a bayonet? Liberty leads a revolution that won’t be televised but will be seen in the Paris Salon.
A-Level: Eugène Delacroix, Scene of the Massacre at Chios
Delacroix’s scene of Greek survivors is anything but heroic and offers no relief to the suffering depicted.
