Greek Campaign. Exhibitions of McIntyre’s artworks toured New Zealand both during and after the Second World War. Immediately following the war he worked as an artist in Dunedin, producing portraits and landscapes. In the decades following the war McIntyre won a number of art awards, and published eight books.

Artist during most wars through history have provided art depicting battle scenes and propaganda, but the art of World War II may be one of the best examples of how war could impact the art...

Oct 11, 2023 · Greek antiquities hidden from the Nazis in a museum room pit. Credit: National Archaeological Museum archives. In April 1941, German troops invaded Athens. The next morning, Nazi officers went to the National Archaeological Museum to inspect the antiquities and assess which ones they would steal to transport them to Germany.

Mar 27, 2023 · This paper demonstrates that in Greek art geometry and not inspiration was the basis of proportion and the fundamental of design.

Nov 28, 2024 · During the tumultuous years of World War II, Greece's ancient treasures became both targets of exploitation and symbols of resistance. Dr. Stavros Paspalas explores this often-overlooked story, revealing the human drama behind the …

The involvement of Greece, and more particularly that of Crete in World War II, is presented in an uneasy exhibition befitting a turbulent period in modern history.

Oct 27, 2023 · During the Second World War, Greek art was used to depict in colours and to deliver in perpetuity the conflict of the Greeks with the Italians, a conflict that ended in triumph for the Greek people. From the first moment, art depicted vividly the general excitement and the overwhelming enthusiasm of the Greeks, the war momentum and the ...

This article looks at the Fitzwilliam Museum’s 1944 Exhibition of Greek Art 3000 B.C.— A.D. 1938 in its wartime context. It explores why the British and Greek governments put resources into a...

Definitely, Liska’s art lived up to the expectations of his peers, and propaganda clichés left the well-recognizable footprints all over his painting and drawings. However, at the same time the artist was also able to create something more valuable than NSDAP-commissioned propaganda poster for the crumbling wall of the neighborhood bakery in ...

The interwar period is one of the most interesting eras in the historical course of the European and Greek arts, characterized by great diversity and marked by the birth of the ideology of Modernism, but also by the search for Greekness in every manifestation.