Empire of the Sun artwork
Nick Waplington’s deeply moving and once controversial photographs of the cells of Barry Island prison, where Nazi SS Officers were held prisoner before the Nuremburg trials, were taken in 1993, almost 50 years after the prisoners had embellished the cell walls with Germanic slogans and drawings of pin-up girls and Bavarian landscapes will be displayed pegahfar.com/. The half-century that elapsed between the photographs and the creation of their subject is grim testament to the enduring legacy of conflict…
Artists: Jules Andrieu, Pierre Antony-Thouret, Nobuyoshi Araki, George Barnard, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Luc Delahaye, Ken Domon, Roger Fenton, Ernst Friedrich, Jim Goldberg, Toshio Fukada, Kenji Ishiguro, Kikuji Kawada, An-My Lê, Jerzy Lewczyński, Emeric Lhuisset, Agata Madejska, Diana Matar, Eiichi Matsumoto, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Don McCullin, Susan Meiselas, Kenzo Nakajima, Simon Norfolk, João Penalva, Richard Peter, Walid Raad, Jo Ratcliffe, Sophie Ristelhueber, Julian Rosefeldt, Hrair Sarkissian, Michael Schmidt, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Indre Šerpytyte, Stephen Shore, Harry Shunk and János Kender, Taryn Simon, Shomei Tomatsu, Hiromi Tsuchida, Marc Vaux, Paul Virilio, Nick Waplington, Jane and Louise Wilson, and Sasaki Yuichiro.
The first featured a ruined castle that was blown up intentionally by the Japanese army during the Second World War. The second comprised photographs taken a decade after the atomic bomb exploded in Hiroshima. They showed the stains and flaking ceilings of the Atomic Bomb Dome, the only structure left standing at the heart of the detonation zone. The third part concerned Tokyo during the period of economic recovery: images of advertising, scrap iron, the trampled national flag and emblems of the American Forces such as Lucky Strike and Coca-Cola, all twisted together, their order shuffled again and again. Some appeared as a montage to be presented as a metaphor. I dare not say the meaning of it.
Conflicts from around the world and across the modern era are depicted, revealing the impact of war days, weeks, months and years after the fact. The works are ordered according to how long after the event they were created: images taken weeks after the end of the American Civil War are hung alongside those taken weeks after the atomic bombs fell on Japan in 1945. Photographs from Nicaragua taken 25 years after the revolution are grouped with those taken in Vietnam 25 years after the fall of Saigon. The exhibition concludes with new and recent projects by British, German, Polish and Syrian photographers which reflect on the First World War a century after it began.
On the back of the black cover box are written rhyming words that are almost impossible to read. The front cover shows that the words are about to burn out. Inside, the pages are laid out as hinged double fold-out spreads. The repetition of the act of opening and closing makes the images appear and disappear. I wanted to have a book design as a new object and something that goes beyond the contents. With the rich and chaotic nature of monochrome, it might be that I tried to find my early style within the illusion of reality by abstracting the phenomenon. As an observer, I would like to keep forcing myself into the future, never losing the sense of danger which emerges in the conflicts of daily life. I wish to harmonise my old distorted maps with the heartbeat of this exhibition at Tate Modern, twisting across the bridges of the centuries through conflicting space and time.
Theatrical artwork
Theatrical painting can be seen as a British variant on another artistic genre: history painting. The latter had long been fashionable in France and Italy, and drew for its subject matter on historical events, classical mythology and the Bible.
In a theatre production, the hierarchy of roles from the director to the stage manager orchestrates the ensemble of actors and actresses to breathe life into the performance. The theatre company encompasses a collection of individuals, each with specialized tasks, managed and unified by the director to achieve a coherent vision.
Theatrical painting can be seen as a British variant on another artistic genre: history painting. The latter had long been fashionable in France and Italy, and drew for its subject matter on historical events, classical mythology and the Bible.
In a theatre production, the hierarchy of roles from the director to the stage manager orchestrates the ensemble of actors and actresses to breathe life into the performance. The theatre company encompasses a collection of individuals, each with specialized tasks, managed and unified by the director to achieve a coherent vision.
Classic theatre productions include Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and Molière’s Tartuffe. These works have set benchmarks for storytelling and are studied for their intricate plots, character development, and influence on the genre.
This was a golden age for theatre in Britain, one in which it became a truly popular form of entertainment. Although they sat in different parts of the auditorium, people of all classes attended, from workmen to monarchs. (The British royal family, unlike many of their European counterparts, had no private theatre, meaning King George III and Queen Charlotte had to attend public performances to indulge their love of drama.)
Collectible graphic
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Welcome to the Graphic Collectibles’ online gallery of original, collectible comic artwork. From original Superman comic art and Spider-Man comic art, to original X-Men comic art and Batman comic art, Graphic Collectibles carries it all. The owner, Mitch Itkowitz, has been in the business of selling original/vintage comic art for over 40 years.
While sports cards remain hot, trading card expansions are shaking up the market. Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, and even luxury brand trading cards are gaining traction. With record-breaking auctions (like the $6 million sale of a Pokémon Illustrator card in 2023), investors are taking trading cards seriously.
Welcome to the Graphic Collectibles� online gallery of original, collectible comic artwork. From original Superman comic art and Spider-Man comic art, to original X-Men comic art and Batman comic art, Graphic Collectibles carries it all. The owner, Mitch Itkowitz, has been in the business of selling original/vintage comic art for over 40 years.
Welcome to the Graphic Collectibles’ online gallery of original, collectible comic artwork. From original Superman comic art and Spider-Man comic art, to original X-Men comic art and Batman comic art, Graphic Collectibles carries it all. The owner, Mitch Itkowitz, has been in the business of selling original/vintage comic art for over 40 years.
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