The Art of War: 3D Gallery

We Used To Joke and Say, God Please Destroy The School ... And He Did

This piece of street art was made by Abu Malik al-Shami on the wall of a school in Syria that had been bombed. The writing on the wall says "'We used to joke and say, "God please destroy the school'...and then he did". Abu Malik al-Shami is known as the Syrian Banksy since they have a similar style. All his works have political messages and are in response to the Syrian civil war that had been affected his whole life.

Painting Over Death

This photograph shows weapons that artist Akram Abo Alfoz turns into art. He collects bomb shells and bullets and paints over them to turn them into something beautiful. He makes these as a way to preserve what is happening so people in the future will know what was happening in Syria and how horrible it was.

The Kiss

Tammam Azzam painted Gustav Klimt's The Kiss on the side of a war torn building in Syria. He calls this style 'Freedom Graffiti' and it is his hope that it brings hope to people in a time of so much destruction and devastation.

American Art of War

American Art of War is a digital artwork made by Konton Kyoudai. There is not a lot of information from the artist about this piece of work, but it is pretty easy to figure out that this is showing the mushroom cloud over Japan after the US dropped two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. Over 100,000 Japanese citizens were killed in both cities. This piece of art appears to be a criticism of the very controversial decision to drop the bombs.

I Want Out

This poster was created by the Committee to Unsell the War around 1971, which was during the Vietnam War. The work is a version of the I Want You to Join the War posters that circulated during World War II to get people to enlist. Uncle Sam is depicted in both posters and is a very patriotic symbol. This was meant to demonstrate to the American government that the vast majority of Americans were against the war, and they wanted out of Vietnam.

Above the Dreamless Dead

This image was the cover work for the book Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics. It depicts a soldier kneeling above the grave of another dead soldier and is meant to demonstrate the finality and horrible nature of war.

Rage, Flower Thrower

Rage, Flower Thrower is a work of art by Bansky. It was put up against a wall in Jerusalem and depicts a man throwing flowers. It's not known what exactly it was put up in response to, but it could have been because of an attack on a gay pride parade or just the violence in the Middle East. Banksy is very anti war, and this art proves that as instead of having the man throw a bomb or another violent weapon, he's having him throw flowers. This shows that the message is to advocate for peace.

Cosa Scrivi?

This painting was created by the Italian artist, Lorenzo Villa on sheets of plexiglass. Many of his works of art in this series, including this piece, depict children in war zones while they hope for the violence to end and for peace and love to prevail. His work shows the reality of war in that children's lives get disrupted and destroyed all the time because of it.

The Disasters of War

The Disasters of War was a series of prints created by Francisco Goya between 1810 and 1820. He made these etchings to depict the despair and disillusionment he felt with the Spanish war going on while Spain was under Napoleon’s control. Each plate has a realistic depiction of the horrors of war and contains very gruesome images.

Guernica

This is a mural sized painting created by Pablo Picasso in 1937. He presented it in at the Paris World’s Fair. This painting is how Picasso expressed his feelings of outrage against war. It depicts a scene from World War II when Hitler’s air force bombed the village of Guernica in Spain as a show of support for Spain’s fascist leader, Francisco Franco. The city was of no military significance and the bombing was senseless; it killed a third of Guernica’s population. Picasso was horrified by this act and this painting was a visual representation of his feelings.

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