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His artistic and technical style evolves at the same time as the tactics and environment of the First World War evolve, a historical milestone that Brunet witnessed firsthand and whose work on this conflict has been exhibited since October by the Fernando Pinós art gallery. in Barcelona. Llorenç Brunet «Composition according to data from the war front» Mixed on paper × His knowledge of European territory, especially German territory, made it easier for Llorenç Brunet to be present on the ground when, in , a war broke out that would leave a deep mark on European society. The drawings that were born from his hands from this time still have a strong influence from his dedication to caricature drawing, which can be seen, in a quick observation, from the intuitive, thick and bold lines of his compositions. The soldiers and the weapons come together in an ironic symbiosis about war, either in the crazed gaze of some characters, or in certain winks, such as some skulls drawn on the uniforms.
Llorenç Brunet «Death Lancers of the German Army» Berlin Mixed media on paper × cm These series have as their unifying point the capture of some crucial moment on the battlefield, a drawing freezing of the war action, as if it were a photographic camera, of the dramatic events and their consequences. On some occasions Llorenç Brunet offers us portraits on the front line of battle, where German cavalry or soldiers B2B Email List charge against the Allied side. The horse, furthermore, is a characteristic symbol of the Great War, in which new experimental techniques are still being tested – which would culminate in the terrifying battlefield of the Second World War –. Other drawings are placed in wartime intervals, during breaks, notifying us of the soldiers' daily life between battle and battle. And finally, the most impressive stand out for their overwhelming compositions about the death left by the conflict: bodies piled up on the ground, tanks stranded in ravines, sunken planes and ships, Red Cross officers and firefighters putting out the fires of war, etcB Cerosuses and Pemanis, and also the Atuatucas, descendants of those six thousand warriors who would have remained guarding the impedimenta during the migration of Cimbrians and Teutons two generations ago.
The Belovaks would provide , men (out of a total capacity of ,); the suesiones, ,; the nerves, another ,; the Atrebates, ,; the Ambians, ,; the morinos, ,; the Menapians, ,; the Caletes, ,; veliocases and viromanduos, ,; the atuátucos, ,; and the chondruses, eburones, waxy and pemans, , The sum gives a total of , men in arms , which is a certainly high figure, which would correspond to a population of between one million and one and a half million inhabitants, taking ratios of : or : man of military age Per inhabitant. For an approximate territory of , km² we would be talking about a population density of between and h//km², similar to what has been calculated for the whole of Gaul at the time. Belovacos and Suesiones disputed the direction of the war, which finally fell to the Suesiones “king” Galba due to his abilities.
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