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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

"Empty, Burnt Warsaw by Night," Henryk Beck, 1944.

Beck (1896-1946) was an esteemed gynecologist and obstetrician who was never a professional artist, but who took to art as a sort of visual diary.

Born in Ukraine to Polish-Jewish parents, he got his medical degree and moved to Warsaw, where he had a successful practice and taught at medical schools. He also performed Poland's first gender-reassignment surgery in 1937, to athlete Witold Smętek.

Beck fought the Nazis in WWII, but then fled to France, then back to Ukraine, where he was almost exiled to Siberia by the Soviets. He resumed medicine and teaching after the war, but died of a heart attack in 1946.

He painted in watercolors all his life, and his pictures of war-torn Warsaw, and his caricatures of the occupiers, are noted today as historical documents. Here we see the damage done by the war...but with a star giving a beam of hope. His works have been collected in a book and he's now the subject of a number of exhibits.

From the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw.

A Symbolist painting. In tones of blue, we see ruins of a burnt city, with some rubble in the foreground and a tall, burnt-out shell in the rear, with a damaged building that might be a factory in the mid-distance. In the upper right, a star shines, with a single beam bisecting the image diagonally.
#Art#Symbolism#Watercolor
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Of Bookish Things

Because of a glitch in the c.im matrix, I had had to postpone the post.
Book Challenge DAY 17: 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just #BookCovers.

#20books #20books20days
#BookCover #CoverIllustration
#Cover_Art #Book #Books #Art
#CanadianLiterature #Mythopoeic #Symbolism #CanadianNovels #CanadianWriter #TayJohn #CanadianCulture #Folklore
#Canada #CanadianNovel
#HowardOHagan #Literature #PaperbackCovers #CanadianFiction
#Paperbacks #HistoricalFiction

New Canadian Library ~ 105 Mystic and as haunting as an Indian myth, Tay John is a novel of outcast love, and merciless greed, a work that strikes a resonant primordial chord. Howard O'Hagan Tay John Bottom half: Abstract circle image.
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Pierre Barraud de Lagerie

Something different, here's a red drawing made in 2029 in Athens. I didn't use red paint, it's the support that's that colour.
There are 3 drawings in this style, I'll post them tomorrow and the day after, saving my favourite for last :)

Zariqua II

Size : 70x50cm
Year : 2019
Place : Athens
Technique : Scratchboard (acrylic and chalk)

The image presents a surreal, dreamlike night scene set in a dramatic red and black color palette. A glowing red orb, partially caged by vertical bars, sits at the center of a striped platform, drawing immediate focus. The sky is dense with swirling red clouds and multiple dark celestial spheres, suggesting an otherworldly atmosphere. Abstract architectural forms frame the composition—sharp-edged, geometric structures emerge from the darkness, with some lines of bright white slicing through the scene like beams or rails. In the background, silhouettes of mountains rise under the blood-red sky, enhancing the feeling of isolation and mystery.
#scratchboard#symbolism#red
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