The Art of War (1 Viewer)
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villagehorse
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Like the digger, you can read a lot into this scene. Very intriguing.:salute::, Robin.
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The figure is of a famous Australian painter named George Lambert. He was famous before WW1 but added to his reputation by being named one of the official Australian war artists. White Australia is very young compared to your country and has only be 'going' since 1788. The war artists contributed to the artistic expression of a sense of Australian national identity that really began to take shape from the 1890s onward. It was heavily informed by the 'Bush' or the "Outback'. Lambert was part of that process. The paintings done by our war artists are considered among the jewels of the collection of the Australian War Memorial although in a purely artistic sense they are conservative and were hardly modern even by the standards of the day. Lambert's paintings are among the most famous Australian works of art. The two attached are from Gallipoli and the charge of the light horse in 1917.
The choice of 'The Art of War' for this thread was a play on words.
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Thanks for that. I found it reassuring that people understood. I have many qualities but I doubt that subtlety is one of them!
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Poppo, go to the TF-store and search for "War Artist."