With Memorial Day this week-end we can stop and take a look at how war looks through the eye of an artist.When
the Revolutionary war opened,
John Trumbull joined the army as adjutant.
His skill as a draughtsman enabled him to make drawings of the enemy's
works at Boston, and Washington appointed him one of his aides-de-camp.
As a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, Trumbull was able to
witness the famous Battle of Bunker Hill.
In
March 1785 John Trumbull wrote to his father, Jonathan Trumbull, Sr.,
that "the great object of my wishes...is to take up the History of Our
Country, and paint the principal Events particularly of the late War."
Influenced by the work of West and John Singleton Copley, Trumbull
completed his first history painting, "The Death of General Warren at
the Battle of Bunker's Hill " (shown above) in March 1786.
Pablo Picasso is considered to be one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. "Guernica" (1937) is thought to be one of Picasso's greatest works. Created during his
Surrealist
period, Picasso captures the horror of the bombing of the Basque town
of Guernica, which killed many innocent civilians during the Spanish
Civil War. By the end of World War II, Picasso had become an
internationally known artist and celebrity. A highly productive artist,
Pablo Picasso created a large number of works during his lifetime.
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