An English project concerning paintings that depict war scenes.

1. WAR IN ART
PAROS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Presented by B2 &
B4
School Year 2017-
2018

2. Pablo Picasso’s GUERNICA

3. “Guernica” is a painting that was created by Pablo
Picasso so that everyone could take notice of the brutal
event that had happened- the bombardment and
destruction of the small village of Guernica, in Spain.
Thousands of civilians were killed. The artist wanted to
depict a scene of death, violence, brutality, and
helplessness.
Throughout history there have been artists who were
influenced by a similar event and went on to depict it in a
painting.
My students having this in mind, searched the Internet
for paintings that were painted by artists (domestic or
foreign) that showed the horrors of war.
Here is their work.

4. The Greek Revolution of 1821
Presented by Flora Lazari
 Eugene. Delacroix, Greece in the
ruins of Messolonghi. 1826. Museum
of Fine Arts in Bordeaux (Musée des
Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux)
 The work Greece in the ruins of
Messolonghi can be seen as a
depiction of the idea of ​​freedom and
the heroic to death struggle of the
enslaved against the tyrannical yoke.
The painting was exhibited along with
other philhellenic works by French
painters at the National Gallery
during the exhibition titled "The
Greek Revolution, Delacroix and the
French Painters" organized in 1997
by the National Gallery in
collaboration with the Association of
French Museums .

5. The Face of War
Presented by Nikos Bobotas
 The Face of War (The Visage of War;
in Spanish La Cara de la Guerra) (1940) is a
painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador
Dalí. It was painted during a brief period
when the artist lived in California.
 The trauma and the view of war had often
served as inspiration for Dalí’s work. He
sometimes believed his artistic vision to be
premonitions of war. This work was painted
between the end of the Spanish Civil War and
beginning of the Second World War.
 The painting depicts a disembodied face
hovering against a barren desert landscape.
The face is withered like that of a corpse and
wears an expression of misery. In its mouth
and eye sockets are identical faces. In their
mouths and eyes are more identical faces in
a process implied to be infinite. Swarming
around the large face are biting serpents. In
the lower right corner is a hand print that Dalí
insisted was left by his own hand.

6. The Massacre at Chios
Presented by Diogenis Dogas
 The painting called “The massacre of Chios” by
the French painter Eugene Delacroix refers to
the massacre of tens of thousands of Greeks in
Chios by the Ottoman army. This event occurred
in 1822, during the second year of the Greek
Revolution.
 The scene is near a coast somewhere in Chios.
On the right side of the painting there is a Greek
mother lying dead with her child, while a Turkish
soldier on a horse grabs a half-naked woman.
On the left side of the painting there is a Greek
soldier having his hands crossed with a young
boy holding him and in front of his feet there are
two children holding each other full of fear. On
the middle you can see people sitting on the
ground with their eyes frozen and a young
couple, probably dead, holding each other.
 This painting was created in 1824 and is located
at the museum of Louvre in Paris. Its size is 419
x 354 cm and it is oil painting on canvas.

7. The Battle Of San Romanno
Presented by Despina Kritikou
 The battle of San Romanno is a set
of three paintings, by the florentine
painter Paolo Uccello , depicting
events that took place at the battle of
San Romanno between the
Florentine and Sienese forces in
1432.
 The paintings are in egg tempera on
wooden panels, each over 3 metres
long . They were much admired in
the 15th century . The paintings are
now divided between three
collections : the National Gallery in
London, the Galleria de Uffizi at
Florence and the Louvre Museum at
Paris .
 They may represent different times of
day: dawn (London), mid-day
(Florence) and dusk (Paris) – the
battle lasted eight hours.

8. Achilles
Presented by George Lazaris
 Lawrence Freedman’s
book Strategy: A
History
 Freedman (1948- )sets
up Achilles and
Odysseus as two poles
in one the book’s key
themes.
 Achilles represents
force and Odysseus
represents guile.
Freedman places more
stock in force than in
guile. If guile doesn’t

9. The Raft of the Medusa
Presented by Ani Leka
 The Raft of the Medusa is
an oil painting of 1818–
1819 by the French painter
and lithographer Theodore
Gericault (1791–1824).
 The Raft of the Medusa
portrays the moment
when, after 13 days adrift
on the raft, the remaining
15 survivors view a ship,
The Argus, approaching
from a distance. It is
difficult to spot The Argus
in the painting, and I think
that this is a beautiful detail
of the painting.

10. Washington Crossing the
Delaware
Presented by Marinos Lavdas
 Washington Crossing the
Delaware is an 1851 oil-on-canvas
painting by the German
American artist Emanuel Gottlieb
Leutze.
 It commemorates General George
Washington's crossing of the
Delaware River with
the Continental Army on the night
of December 25–26, 1776, during
the American Revolutionary War.
The original was part of the
collection at
the Kunsthalle in Bremen, German
y, and was destroyed in a bombing
raid in 1942, during World War II.
Leutze painted two more versions,
one of which is now in
the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York City. The other was
in the West Wing reception area of
the White House in Washington,
D.C., but is now in possession of

11. The Massacre of Chios
Presented by Ioanna Barbari
 Creator: Eugene
Delacroix
 Year of creation: 1824
 Height: 419 cm
 Width: 354 cm
 Located at the Louvre
Museum
 The painting refers to the
massacre of tens of
thousands of Greeks in
Chios by the Ottoman
army. The event occurred
in 1822, during the 2nd
year of the Greek
Revolution.

12. The Third of May
Presented by Zacharoula Soukantou
 The Third of May 1808 is a painting completed in
1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya,
now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. In the work,
Goya sought to commemorate Spanish
resistance to Napoleon's armies during the
occupation of 1808 in the Peninsular War. Along
with its companion piece of the same size, The
Second of May 1808 it was commissioned by the
provisional government of Spain at Goya's
suggestion.
 The painting's content, presentation, and
emotional force secure its status as a
groundbreaking, archetypal image of the horrors
of war. Although it draws on many sources from
both high and popular art, The Third of May 1808
marks a clear break from convention. Diverging
from the traditions of Christian art and traditional
depictions of war, it has no distinct precedent,
and is acknowledged as one of the first paintings
of the modern era. According to the art historian
Kenneth Clark, The Third of May 1808 is "the first
great picture which can be called revolutionary in
every sense of the word, in style, in subject, and

13. After War
Presented by Aristeidis Papadimitriou
 This painting was created in 1927 by
Nicolae Tonitza in Romania. Nicolae
Tonitza (1886-1940) was a Romanian
painter, engraver, lithographer,
journalist and art critic.
 The tragic effects of World War I on
Tonitza and his generation are
revealed in this undated
painting, Dupa Razboi(or After the
War). Tonitza's compassion for the
female experience of war is elicited
through the harrowing expression on
her face and the crosses in the
background- every soldier is
someone's child or father or husband
 Tonitza's health remained precarious
after fighting in World War I. As an
artist, his compassion for the suffering
emerged most clearly in his graphic
work. In 1921, Tonitza opened the
door to a whole new medium by
painting prototypes for a ceramics
factory and organizing a ceramics
exhibition.

14. SCUTTLING OF THE GERMAN FLEET AT
SCAPA FLOW
Presented by Maximos Roussos
 On 21 June 1919 the crews of the German
High Seas Fleet, interned at Scapa Flow,
Orkney, took advantage of lax security to
scuttle the entire fleet before their ships could
be subjected to the terms of the armistice. This
action, following the momentous surrender of
the German Fleet in the Firth of the Forth in
November 1918, was the dramatic and bitter
conclusion of the First World War.
 The Scottish setting - at the Royal Navy's key
naval base - demonstrates the strategic
importance of Scotland in the naval rivalry
between Great Britain and Germany in two
world wars.
 This painting is an eye witness account of the
scuttling of the Fleet - there are few
photographs recording the scene. The artist ,
Bernard Gribble , had earlier witnessed the
Fleet's dramatic entry into the Forth and was
present by chance as the German crews sunk

15. The Raft of the Medusa
Presented by Themis Naskintasvili
 The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le
Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d(ə) la
medyz]) is an oil painting of 1818–
1819 by the French Romantic painter
and lithographer Théodore Géricault
(1791–1824).
 Completed when the artist was 27, the
work has become an icon of French
Romanticism. At 491 cm × 716 cm (16'
1" × 23' 6"),[1] it is an over-life-size
painting that depicts a moment from
the aftermath of the wreck of the
French naval frigate Méduse, which
ran aground off the coast of today's
Mauritania on 2 July 1816. On 5 July
1816, at least 147 people were set
adrift on a hurriedly constructed raft;
all but 15 died in the 13 days before
their rescue, and those who survived
endured starvation and dehydration
and practised cannibalism. The event
became an international scandal, in
part because its cause was widely

16. Over The Top
Presented by Vicky Riga
 The painting I am about to describe today is
called “Over the Top” by Josh Nash. It was
drawn in 1918.
 It is an oil-on-canvas painting. It depicts a
counter-attack on Welsh Ridge in Northern
France on 30 December 1917 during the First
World War. It is held by Imperial War Museum
in London.
 The painting shows British soldiers in heavy
winter greatcoats scrambling up from their
trenches to advance over a snow-covered
landscape. Two already died or wounded on
the duckboards in the base of the trench and
one on the snow. The others move to the right
without looking back. Threatening clouds hang
in the sky above, billowing dark.
 The painting is based on Nash's experience
while serving in the 1st Battalion of the Artists
Rifles (28th London Regiment).
 His unit went "over the top", to push
towards Marcoing near Cambrai. Of the 80
men, 68 were killed or wounded by the shell-
fire during the first few minutes. Nash was one
of the 12 that survived.

17. We Are Making A New World
Presented by John Diakoyannis
 1918 oil-on-canvas
painting by Paul Nash
 An empty battlefield, with
shattered trees, the earth a
mass of shell holes.
 The sun hangs high in the
sky, beams of light shining
down through heavy
clouds.
 This work is one of the
most memorable images of
the First World War.
 The title contradicts the
devastation of war, as the
sun rises on a scene of the
total destruction.

18. The Face of War
Presented by Marinos Passaris
 The Face of War (1940) is a painting by the
Spanish surrealist painter, Salvador Dali.
The work was created between the end of
the Spanish Civil war and the beginning of
the Second World War.
 The painting depicts an unrealistic giant form
of war that hovers in a barren landscape of
the desert. In this anhydrous environment,
the disfigured human face wanders
surrounded by reptiles. It is a terrifying
image of a jellyfish’s head in disintegration,
with her snaking hair attacking her on both
sides. There are other skulls in the captivity
of the eyes and mouth, which in turn have
crowns in the position of the eyes and the
mouth, which is repeated indefinitely. The
horror of the painting is further enhanced by
the brown tines that dominate the
atmosphere.
 For his part, unofficially Dali pointed out that
it was the only work where one could see
the real footprint of his hand on the canvas.

19. Stormtroops advancing under a gas
attack
Presented by Vasiliki Ragkousi
 Otto Dix was profoundly affected
by the sights of the war, and later
described a recurring nightmare in
which he crawled through
destroyed houses. He represented
his traumatic experiences in many
subsequent works, including a
portfolio of fifty etchings called Der
Krieg, published in 1924.
 Year: 1924
 Description: The scene is other
worldly as gas clouds the
atmosphere. Their features are
obscured by masks and their
fingers are curled like claws. These
are men who will kill by any
means. But are they men?
 Provenance: Der Krieg; #12
National Gallery of Australia,

20. The Third of May 1808
Presented by Anna Skandali
 The Third of May 1808 also known as
El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid is
a painting completed in 1814 by the
Spanish painter Francisco Goya, now
in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Goya
sought to commemorate Spanish
resistance to Napoleon’s armies during
the occupation of 1808 in the Peninsular
War.
 It is set in the early hours of the morning
following the uprising and centers on the
two masses of men: one a rigidly
poised firing squad, the other a
disorganized group of captives held at
gun point. The central figure is the
brilliantly lit man kneeling amid the
bloodied corpses of those already
executed, his arms flung wide in either

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