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Place des Martyres (paintings)

Index Place des Martyres (paintings)

Place des Martyres is the title of a series of over 250 watercolors and drawings executed in New York and Beirut between 1971 and 1974 by Nabil Kanso. [1]

27 relations: Arabs, Barbara Schwartz (artist), Beirut, Drawing, Edgar Degas, Emil Nolde, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Ghassan Tueni, Hanging, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Human sexuality, Humour, Irony, Jules Pascin, Lebanese Civil War, Marie Laurencin, Martyr, Martyrs' Square, Beirut, Nabil Kanso, Nationalism, New York City, Ottoman Empire, Ribaldry, Rouault, Sense, Watercolor painting, World War I.

Arabs

Arabs (عَرَب ISO 233, Arabic pronunciation) are a population inhabiting the Arab world.

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Barbara Schwartz (artist)

Barbara Schwartz (1949 – May 8, 2006, New York) was an American abstract artist, painter, sculptor and art teacher.

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Beirut

Beirut (بيروت, Beyrouth) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.

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Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or another two-dimensional medium.

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Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas (or; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas,; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings.

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Emil Nolde

Emil Nolde (born Emil Hansen; 7 August 1867 – 13 April 1956) was a German-Danish painter and printmaker.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art.

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Ghassan Tueni

Ghassan Tueni (غسان تويني‎; 5 January 1926 – 8 June 2012) was a veteran Lebanese journalist, politician and diplomat who headed An Nahar, one of the Arab World's leading newspapers.

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Hanging

Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times.

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Human sexuality

Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually.

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Humour

Humour (British English) or humor (American English; see spelling differences) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.

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Irony

Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.

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Jules Pascin

Julius Mordecai Pincas (March 31, 1885 – June 5, 1930), known as Pascin (erroneously or), Jules Pascin, or the "Prince of Montparnasse", was a Bulgarian artist known for his paintings and drawings.

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Lebanese Civil War

The Lebanese Civil War (الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية – Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted civil war in Lebanon, lasting from 1975 to 1990 and resulting in an estimated 120,000 fatalities.

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Marie Laurencin

Marie Laurencin (31 October 1883 – 8 June 1956) was a French painter and printmaker.

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Martyr

A martyr (Greek: μάρτυς, mártys, "witness"; stem μάρτυρ-, mártyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, refusing to renounce, or refusing to advocate a belief or cause as demanded by an external party.

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Martyrs' Square, Beirut

Martyrs' Square is a square in the heart of downtown Beirut, Lebanon.

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Nabil Kanso

Nabil Kanso (born 1946) is an American painter.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty (self-governance) over the homeland.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

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Ribaldry

Ribaldry, or blue comedy, is humorous entertainment that ranges from bordering on indelicacy to gross indecency.

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Rouault

Rouault is a surname that may refer to.

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Sense

A sense is a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception.

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Watercolor painting

Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (French, diminutive of Latin aqua "water"), is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_des_Martyres_(paintings)

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