Title: Self Portrait Artist: Francis Bacon Year: 1971 Medium: Oil on canvas Francis Bacon, the artist, paints provocative and disturbing images that carry a raw sense of anxiety and alienation. They reflect that existential fear, loathing and incomprehension at the atrocities of the Holocaust that came to light at the end of World War Two. Francis Bacon was was … [Read more...] about Self Portrait – Francis Bacon
Violent Art
A Waking Nightmare – Denny Bond
Artist: Denny Bond Title: A Waking Nightmare An internationally recognized watercolorist living in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Denny Bond graduated from Kutztown University with a Bachelor of Fine Art in communications. Working as an illustrator, Bond utilizes his graphic background to combine elements in creating representational paintings and illustrations … [Read more...] about A Waking Nightmare – Denny Bond
The Battle of Alexander at Issus – Albrecht Altdorfer
Title: The Battle of Alexander at Issus Artist: Albrecht Altdorfer Year: 1529 Type: oil painting on panel A painting is a static image. It shows things all at once. It cannot represent a sequence of events. But some kinds of prolonged activity it can manage. Among "the fittest subjects for painting" are "such actions whose incidents are all … [Read more...] about The Battle of Alexander at Issus – Albrecht Altdorfer
Shock Troops Advance under Gas – Otto Dix
Artist: Otto Dix Date: 1924 Medium: Etching, aquatint, and drypoint from a portfolio of fifty etching, aquatint and drypoints Dimensions: plate: 19.3 x 28.8 cm.; sheet: 34.8 x 47.3 cm. Appearing ten years after the conflict began, Otto Dix's monumental portfolio Der Krieg (The war) neither glorifies World War I nor heroizes its soldiers but shows, in … [Read more...] about Shock Troops Advance under Gas – Otto Dix
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist – Caravaggio
Artist: Caravaggio Year: 1608 Type: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 361 cm × 520 cm. Location: St. John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta This is the altar piece of the Oratory and was commissioned by Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt. It is the largest painting produced by the artist and the only one known to be signed. The Beheading of St John the Baptist … [Read more...] about The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist – Caravaggio
