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Lithograph
Changes in Great Masterpieces
1974
By Paul Chimera
Dali Historian
(Mr. Chimera worked directly with Dali Museum founder Reynolds Morse, as the publicity director of the original Dali Museum when it was located in Beachwood, Ohio)
No artist in history was revered by Salvador Dali more than the Spanish master who painted “Surrender of Breda,” the large masterpiece depicted here, and on which Dali deftly made some eye-fooling, surrealistic changes. That artist was Velasquez, who occupied the number one spot in Dali’s list of his favorite artists, along with such other iconic painters as Vermeer and Raphael – both of whom Dali pays homage to in other graphic works from this “Changes in Great Masterpieces” series.
Scholars often cite “Surrender of Breda” as being one of the most purely Spanish paintings ever created. Salvador Dali agreed. Not only was he profoundly inspired by the genius of his 17th century precursor, but he was especially moved by his monumental canvas, which hangs in Madrid’s Prado Museum – a place Dali visited often to study the brushwork of the masters.
Remarkably, this single Velasquez picture figures in not one but two important Dali works. The first instance was in Dali’s huge and extraordinarily complex and beautifully painted canvas, “The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus” of 1959. Dali paid homage to the Velasquez painting by borrowing the flags and tall lances in the background of the earlier work and recreating them in the background of “Columbus.”
And, of course, the second instance of “Surrender of Breda’s” influence is in the present lithograph. Notice how Dali cleverly implied the illusion of a tear in the Breda work, down the middle. And then again, showing the same see-through background by virtue of the “hole” in the horse at right.
Below the main image is a small sepia reproduction of “Surrender of Breda,” accompanied by Dali’s sketch of the two main figures from the Velasquez work, one handing the key to the city off to the victor.
What a remarkable piece of Dalinian art, created the same year Dali’s Teatro-Museo Dali (Dali Theatre-Museum) opened in his birth town of Figueras, Spain. A tribute to his favorite artist. Adroit tromp l’ oil (eye-fooling) technique. Whimsical sketching. All coming together as part of what has long been considered one of Dali’s most interesting, inventive and important graphics suites.
Croatian cliff diver. We were sitting at a bar overlooking the Adriatic when a body streaked past us from above. I grabbed the camera just in time to catch the second kid in mid-flight. I'd guess it was about 100 foot drop. Totally fearless.
I'm having a -I dont give a damn- days, everytime I give a damn it seems that I am the one who gets hurt and pushed down to my lowest point again !
I surrender..
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After the war of 1812 it was apparent that new forts needed to be built to defend from possible future invasion. Construction on Fort Sumter began in 1827 and was still unfinished 33 years later when the Civil War started. It was however, due to its location, the most defensible fort in Charleston. The day after Christmas, in 1860, Major Anderson took 127 men and abandoned Fort Moultrie, which had been defending Charleston since 1776. This older fort provided defenses from attack from the sea, but was not prepared to defend from attack by land. While Fort Sumter was not finished at the start of the Civil War, it was more defendable than Fort Moultrie. Here Major Anderson would attempt to hold off South Carolina.
By the time that Lincoln became president in March of 1861, the situation in Fort Sumter was becoming desperate. With only enough food to last 5-6 weeks it was clear that Anderson must be resupplied or will need to surrender. Setting sail on April 6th, the supply ships rendezvoused outside of Charleston just before midnight on April 11th. That same day, General Beauregard sent a dispatch to Anderson demanding the surrender of the fort, which was refused. At 4:30 AM on April 12th, Confederate batteries in Charleston began firing on Fort Sumter. By noon on the 13th, it was clear that after 35 hours of repeated shelling the battle was over. Major Anderson requested, as part of the Terms of Surrender, a 100 gun salute to honor the United States. No loss of life was reported on either side from shelling (although one Confederate soldier died due to misfire and two on the Union side during the 100 gun salute that Major Anderson was granted).
Recaptured in February of 1865, it was rebuilt by the Army and remained in service for many years and was extensively rebuilt during the Spanish American War. A major tourist attraction in Charleston since the end of the war, it was operated by the Army until the end of World War II when it was finally concluded that there was no longer strategic significance to the site. Declared a national monument in 1948, the fort finally (officially) ended its service as a fort.
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War (1861–1865). It was the final engagement of Confederate General in Chief, Robert E. Lee, and his Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army of the Potomac under the Commanding General of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant.
Lee, having abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, after the nine-and-a-half-month Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, retreated west, hoping to join his army with the remaining Confederate forces in North Carolina, the Army of Tennessee under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Union infantry and cavalry forces under Gen. Philip Sheridan pursued and cut off the Confederates' retreat at the central Virginia village of Appomattox Court House. Lee launched a last-ditch attack to break through the Union forces to his front, assuming the Union force consisted entirely of lightly armed cavalry. When he realized that the cavalry was now backed up by two corps of federal infantry, he had no choice but to surrender with his further avenue of retreat and escape now cut off.
The signing of the surrender documents occurred in the parlor of the house owned by Wilmer McLean on the afternoon of April 9. On April 12, a formal ceremony of parade and the stacking of arms led by Confederate Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon to federal Brig. Gen. Joshua Chamberlain marked the disbandment of the Army of Northern Virginia with the parole of its nearly 28,000 remaining officers and men, free to return home without their major weapons but enabling men to take their horses and officers to retain their sidearms (swords and pistols), and effectively ending the war in Virginia.
This event triggered a series of subsequent surrenders across the South, in North Carolina, Alabama and finally Shreveport, Louisiana, for the Trans-Mississippi Theater in the West by June, signaling the end of the four-year-long war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House
From April 2nd and the Fall of Petersburg to April 9th and the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House, Confederate and Federal armies engaged in skirmishes and battles, including a major battle at Sailor’s Creek. The Confederates were desperate to get to Lynchburg for supplies and to break out to join Confederate forces in North Carolina. The Federals sought peace as Lincoln envisioned it, starting with the destruction or surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.
The armies confronted each other on the gently rolling terrain in and around Appomattox Court House at dawn on April 9th. Confederates of the Secord Corps, under the leadership of Major General John B. Gordon, swept forward across the ridgelines to clash with the Federal cavalry of Major General Philip Sheridan. Initial assaults were successful, but Federal infantry from Major General Charles Griffin’s Fifth Corps and Major General John Gibbon’s Twenty Fourth Corps arrived after a forced march. These men, including some 5,000 United States Colored Troops, blocked Lee’s army from accessing roads to Lynchburg and Danville.
Confederates under the command of Lieutenant General James Longstreet could not provide support for Gordon because the Federal Second Corps of Major General Andrew A. Humphreys advanced against Longstreet’s troops. Grant, in a letter from April 7, had asked Lee to accept the “hopelessness of further resistance.” With his army surrounded, Lee now agreed with Grant’s assessment and ordered his officers to offer a white flag of truce.
Lee and Grant exchanged letters regarding the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. Grant’s terms, reflecting Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address and Lincoln’s recent guidance provided at City Point, Virginia, required a promise to surrender arms and not engage in further conflicts against the United States. Grant did not ask for unconditional surrender. Lee accepted the terms.
Sergeant Major William McCoslin, serving in the 29th Regiment USCI, declared in a May 1865 letter that “We the colored soldiers, have fairly won our rights by loyalty and bravery”. In contrast, Brigadier General Armistead Lindsay Long from the Army of Northern Virginia communicated that “It is impossible to describe the anguish of the troops when it was known that the surrender of the army was inevitable. Of all their trials, this was the greatest and hardest to endure”. On April 9, Colonel Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who served as part of the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry, chronicled that the “Rebels are half starved, and our men have divided their rations with them . . . . We did it cheerfully”. Brevet Major General Joshua Chamberlain stated that “Brave men may become good friends,” but Chamberlain further reported that a Confederate officer was more uncertain: “You’re mistaken, sir . . . . You may forgive us but we won’t be forgiven. There is rancor in our hearts . . . which you little dream of”.
On the evening of April 9, Pvt. Hiram W. Harding, who served in the 9th Virginia Cavalry Company D, described this poignant occasion in his diary: the “noble army of Northern Virginia was surrendered to day at ten O'clock & the Cavalry ordered to Buckingham courthouse there to be disbanded”. Federal officials printed parole passes for Confederate soldiers beginning on April 10th from the Clover Hill Tavern; the formal ceremony of the stacking of arms took place April 12th. The American myth of Appomattox, Grant, and Lee and their individual and nuanced symbolism sparked simultaneously with the surrender.
Written by Russ Wood, Appomattox Court House NHP Volunteer
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The Japanese surrender flag at the end of the war. The Japanese character is apparently the army unit that was surrendering.
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Hamilton, NJ
25' tall sculpture by Seward Johnson recreating the iconic photo entitled"Unconditional Surrender" by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
“Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
RLS's beautiful 67 Firebird, with mechanic Greg Anderson working in the background on Bob Utner's Pro Stocker.
The Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Yorktown or Surrender at Yorktown, the latter taking place on October 19, 1781 at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. The culmination of the Yorktown campaign, the siege proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War, as the surrender by Cornwallis, and the capture of both him and his army, prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict. The battle boosted faltering American morale and revived French enthusiasm for the war, as well as undermining popular support for the conflict in Britain.
After initial preparations, the Americans and French built their first parallel and began the bombardment. With the British defense weakened, Washington on October 14, 1781 sent two columns to attack the last major remaining British outer defenses. A French column took redoubt #9 and an American column redoubt #10. With these defenses taken, the allies were able to finish their second parallel.[citation needed] With the American artillery closer and more intense than ever, the British situation began to deteriorate rapidly and Cornwallis asked for capitulation terms on the 17th. After two days of negotiation, the surrender ceremony took place on the 19th; Lord Cornwallis, claiming to be ill, was absent from the ceremony. With the capture of over 7,000 British soldiers, negotiations between the United States and Great Britain began, resulting in the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown
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During the Battle of Cantigny on May 28, 1918, French flamethrower sappers armed with a P3 portable device appear to be pulling a German soldier from the rubble; the sapper on the left is armed with a pistol, as is his comrade standing well back on the right. The Germans were known to fake their surrender in order to throw grenades.
The P3 was lighter and had a much greater range than the Schilt No. 3 bis. It could also be fitted with a nine-minute fuse.
Surrendering german ww2
Victory show cosby 8sept 2012.
Leics UK
I think this exact same guy was in the same place last year and surrendered there too lol!
ive tried to get an old film look to this with photoshop.
Filter/ blur more /add noise.
Enhance photo/remove colour.
Anyway these battle re enactments are great fun and well worth going to if youre a photographer.
You need at least a 200mm lens for these battles to focus into them.
24698 “Lees Last Bivouac” sign, 2630 Huguenot Trail, Powhatan, Powhatan, VA. May 22, 2019. Decimal degrees: 37.60127, -77.82822
“Lees Last Bivouac”
“April 14, 1865”
“Although Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, the formal surrender ceremonies for his cavalry, artillery, and infantry occurred over the next three days. Lee did not attend. On April 12, after his infantrymen had stacked arms, Lee departed for Richmond and his family. Members of staff rode with him, including Cols. Walter Taylor and Charles Marshall, as well as Maj. Giles Cooke, confined to an ambulance by wounds suffered a week earlier at Sailor’s Creek. The group bivouacked that first night in woods two miles beyond Buckingham Court House.
On April 13, the party reached Cumberland County and bivouacked at Flanagan’s Mill, spending the night at the home of Madison Flanagan. The next day, Cooke left to join his mother and sisters near Richmond. The others rode into Powhatan County and stopped for the night at Windsor, the house of Lee’s brother Charles Lee, at Fine Creek Mills. Since the house was already crowded, the men planned to sleep in a tent but instead were invited to spend the night in the residence of John Gilliam on the adjoining farm. Politely declining, Lee spent his ‘final bivouac’ in his tent on Gilliam’s lawn.
After breakfasting with the Gilliams on April 15, the trio soon departed, accompanied by Lee’s son, Gen. William Henry Fitzhugh ‘Rooney’ Lee, and his nephew, John Lee, Charles Carter Lee’s son. Riding down the old river road through Powhatan and Chesterfield Counties, they soon neared Richmond and crossed the James River pontoon Bridge at Manchester. Lee quickly reached his rented dwelling and waiting family at 707 East Franklin Street.”
Under lower left photograph:
“Lee on Traveller”
Below upper middle portrait:
“Col. Charles Marshall”
Beneath right photograph:
“Col. Walter Taylor (right), Gen. Robert E. Lee (center), and Gen. G.W. Custis Lee (left).”
On this spot, defeated Confederate General Pemberton surrendered his army and the city to General Grant. At the Vicksburg Military Park, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, marking the siege and capture of that city in 1863.
Scattered around the park are numerous markers and monuments comemorating individuals, units and states participating in the siege.
This cemetery stole me, for hours while I read every name on every stone. I captured an image of each final one, over two centuries of consistent burials in this bit of earth. Small, but long-lived plots are the strangest of all for me. Hosting hold for a long duration, but held in this pocket of place. I can step from the 1700s to the the 1970s in seconds, wind around between Loyalist settlers and others who died just before I was born. There's only about 100 accounted here, sharing space on 50-some stones. They hold tightly between an eroding stream west and a disused field to the east. Out back, the forest in encroaching, slowly growing invading forces, taking back what lost souls stole. Everything in slow motion surrender, crumbling sandstone, markers cracking in two. Granite is eternal, all others reach the end of their afterlife. I'll be here when time ticks down.
February 3, 2021
Mills Cemetery
Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia
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Recently I surrendered to the throngs of squirrels that encroach into my yard from the adjoining woodlot. You'd think they'd see the fence and take notice...but it doesn't slow them down at all. Anyway a while back I gave up, moved one of those little corn cob holders so as to start feeding those tree rats on my front deck. They don't seem to chatter and bark at me as much as they once did. Still a bit skittish when I come in and out, hopefully they'll get used to me and my camera. This morning this one was out at the bird bath, dry for now but I've been putting the loose corn in it so as to keep them out of the ground cover (I told you I don't rake leaves)