Ficha de arte: Cartel Guerras Mundiales

The artist Glenn Grothe created this poster for British propaganda that warns people about the dangers of enemy espionage. It depicts a German soldier lurking in the shadows trying to get some information.

The work is included in the multitude of posters made ​​by military and government propaganda that served many graphic artists in order to pass on tips and warnings to the population in war in the two world wars of the first half of the twentieth century.

Ficha de arte: Cartel Guerra Civil Española

The poster shows several peasants to whom it is addressed the printed information which shows the advantages of the Republican government against rebel movement.

Propaganda is inextricably linked to the history of warfare. He has performed in all armed conflicts in varying degrees, becoming decisive. If the propaganda had been a key weapon in the First World War, its ideological character, played and even more important role in the Spanish Civil War.

Ficha de arte: cartel comunista.

Draft communist propaganda poster made ​​in Bulgaria, with influences of Russian Constructivism. Gouache on paper. In the picture you can see a peasant course raising a hammer and sickle with light tints revolutionaries. You could find this lithograph 175 € until recently for sale.

The work is framed, by design, in the early days of the Bolshevik revolution, where all the attention fell on the worker, the Soviet workers, the mainstay of the regime which had to instruct, especially in times of WWII .

Ficha de arte: La torre Eiffel (Seurat).

The Eiffel Tower is an oil painting on panel in 1889 by the French painter Georges Pierre Seurat (which fascinated this work), which is preserved in the Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, United States. The work is painted using the pointillist technique.

It should be remembered that 1889 was the year of the Universal Exhibition in Paris, where the main attraction was definitely the tower built by engineer Gustave Eiffel. The picture, of small dimensions, shows the Eiffel tower still under construction, not the top floor. Other painters of the period, such as Camille Pissarro, dissatisfied with the construction of the monument of metal boycotted it directly not representing.

Ficha de arte: Ópera de Sídney.

Located in the city of Sydney, State of New South Wales, Australia, is one of the most famous and distinctive buildings of the twentieth century. Declared in 2007 World Heritage Site, was designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon in 1957 and opened on October 20, 1973, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

The idea of ​​building an opera house in Sydney began to take shape in the last years of the 40s. At that time the theater productions were made in the Sydney Town Hall, a space considered insufficient for such producciones. The field chosen for the construction of the complex, was the former Fort Macquarie, then converted in a tram depot.
Official web page: http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/homepage.aspx

Desembarco / Batalla de Normandía (Día D).

Inició la mañana del seis de junio de 1944, al ponerse en marcha la operación “Overlord”. Alrededor de 300 mil soldados al mando del general estadounidense Dwight Eisenhower, desembarcaron en las costas de Normandía con el objetivo de acabar de una vez por todas con los nazis.

La batalla de Normandía en 1944, denominada en clave Operación Overlord, fue la invasión de Europa llevada a cabo por los Aliados en el noroeste de Francia, entonces ocupada por la Alemania nazi. El desembarco, denominado en clave Operación Neptuno como parte de la Operación Overlord, fue ejecutado por las fuerzas aliadas en la II Guerra Mundial. El esfuerzo aliado se concentró en desembarcar en Europa un ejército que, después de liberar Francia, llegara hasta el mismo corazón del Tercer Reich. Los preparativos de la operación Overlord se iniciaron en Gran Bretaña.

Inglés:
The Battle of Normandy in 1944, code-named Operation Overlord, the invasion of Europe was carried out by the Allies in the northwest of France, then occupied by Nazi Germany. The landing, code-named Operation Neptune as part of Operation Overlord, was executed by the Allied forces in World War II. The allied effort focused on landing an army in Europe, after freeing France, came to the heart of the Third Reich. Preparations for Operation Overlord began in Great Britain.


Fuente: Wikipedia y http://www.lasegundaguerra.com/viewtopic.php?t=2364