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Yperite by Jan Theuninck, 2004 - WW1

Vredesmuseum Nederland

WW1: first use of chemical warfare on a massive scale

 

This painting by Jan Theuninck depicts the terror, caused by chemical warfare, and the thousands of deaths on the battlefields. The painting is an anti-war statement and a symbol of peace - 2004, acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm.

 

 

Vredesmuseum Nederland

www.vredesmuseum.nl/galerie/wargasm.php

Schilderijen over WW1

www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.nl/wiki/index.php/Yperite-Jan...

art.china.cn/zixun/txt/2008-01/21/content_2019451.htm

charterforcompassion.org/belgium

www.kunstmagazine.net/artist/18

poetryagainstracism.blogspot.com/2016/07/jan-theuninck.html

 

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" Yperite "

 

late at night

 

a mist

 

fills the valley

 

without knowing

 

it suffocates

 

like a dark power

 

on the fields

 

our dead bodies

 

and under the grass

 

a brown soil

 

© by Jan Theuninck

 

 

Jan Theuninck is a Belgian painter

www.boekgrrls.nl/BgDiversen/Onderwerpen/gedichten_over_sc...

www.graphiste-webdesigner.fr/blog/2013/04/la-peinture-bel... (2016)

www.eutrio.be/expo-west-meets-east

www.e-architect.co.uk/architects/le-corbusier

 

Charter for Compassion

www.charterforcompassion.org/index.php/belgium

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