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The Three Dancers
The Three Dancers (1945). Luke, John 1906-1975. The Three Dancers is a prime example of Luke?s highly stylised and precise technique. The flowing lines of the dancers? arms, the bending boughs of the bush and the wavy undulations of the landscape, create the rhythm of the dance in a powerfully immediate way. The subtle finish and intense colour derives from the use of tempera, a medium Luke began experimenting with in 1933 and which fascinated him. By the 1940s, Luke had become virtually obsessed with the craftsmanship involved in creating works like The Three Dancers. Indeed, such was his preoccupation with the making of the picture that he produced lengthy notes on its technical construction. Luke spent almost his entire career living and working in Belfast with the exception of a period in County Armagh during the war years. This picture, painted whilst he was living there, is the first of a number of almost visionary compositions produced in the mid-1940s possibly inspired by the closing stages of the war. Date: 1945
© National Museums NI / MARY EVANS
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WWI Poster, Take up the Sword of Justice
Design by Bernard Partridge (1861-1945), Take Up the Sword of Justice, Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster. One of the most popular, much plagiarised posters of WW1, used with great success to recruit following the torpedoing of the RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915, one of the chief factors in bringing America into the war. Date: 1915
© Mary Evans Picture Library/Onslow Auctions Limited
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?Marengo?, the favourite charger of Napoleon I, 1815
?Marengo?, the favourite charger of Napoleon I, 1815 (c). Soft-ground etching, by and after James Ward, published by R Ackermann, Strand, London, 1 August 1824. With a flowing mane and tail and highly defined muscles, standing by a lake in an empty landscape lit by a setting sun (symbolising Napoleon?s fall from power). The original painting was painted for the Duke of Northumberland. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy, No. 219, in 1826. It is currently in the collection of the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle (see Courtauld Institute Photographic Survey April 1998). Date: circa 1860
© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library
