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 war
Whether responding to events in ancient Rome or contemporary Iraq, these artworks all take war as their theme.
A-Level: Sample set of works for War
These expressive funerary objects evolved from simple clay cylinders into animal, human, and building forms.
A-Level: Haniwa Warrior
Complete mayhem! The violent scenes of this remarkable handscroll meld grisly horror with morbid humor.
A-Level: Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace
Britain was at war, and its artists and writers represented a broad range of experiences.
A-Level: British Art and Literature During WWI
The Nazis organized two exhibitions in 1937: one glorified “Aryan” art, and the other condemned everything else.
A-Level: Art in Nazi Germany
A sinister tale of bloodlust and nepotism led to the tragic events Goya depicts in “the first modern painting.”
A-Level: Francisco Goya, The Third of May, ...
This print wasn’t made public until long after Goya’s death, for fear of exposing his controversial political views.
A-Level: Francisco Goya, And there’s nothing to ...
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, Liberty Leading the People
Delacroix’s scene of Greek survivors is anything but heroic and offers no relief to the suffering depicted.
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