Cities & towns; Buildings; Flatiron Building (New York, N.Y.); Streets
View of Flatiron Building in New York from down the street. Twenty-story wedge-shaped building at the intersection of two streets. Pedestrians and horses and wagons are on the street. Title: 10 Most striking of Sky-scrapers - the 'Flatiron' Bldg.,...
"This great painting was later renamed, with fitting opportunism, The Premonition of Civil War." (Caption); "The events of October 1934, and his scare in Barcelona, seem to have convinced Dali that civil war was a real possibility in...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Civil wars; War; Politics & government; Political issues; Dictators; Nazis; Fascism; Civilization; Bombings; Military tactics; War destruction & pillage; Death; Dismemberment; Body parts; Mental states; Despair;...
"In this monumental work of 1937, Guernica, Picasso combined Analytic and Synthetic Cubist forms with several traditional motifs, juxtaposing them in a new Surrealist way. The combination serves the political message of the painting - namely,...
