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aj
Recruit
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 Posted - August 29 2005 : 10:52:09 AM
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Why is it that when European armies make last stands they are portrayed bunched tightly together with the enemy swarming around them e.g. the Last Stand of the the 24th at Isandhlwana in 1879 was portrayed like stated above by C.E. Fripp.
But when Custer's Last Stand is painted the troopers always seem to be spread out rather than bunched together, could I ask why?
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Dark Cloud
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Posted - August 29 2005 : 1:59:21 PM
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So far as the Europeans, possibly because the paintings aim to suggest what happened? Given the British fought their infantry in close formation square and all?
Secondly, seems to me that LBH paintings show troopers VERY bunched together, if chaotically. I can't really think of one that doesn't, I guess.
But sometimes Euro paintings were commissioned by families of the deceased, and it was necessary to show important people around the key event, whether true or not, and perhaps that might explain it. |
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - August 29 2005 : 9:07:20 PM
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Originally posted by Dark Cloud
So far as the Europeans, possibly because the paintings aim to suggest what happened? Given the British fought their infantry in close formation square and all?
Secondly, seems to me that LBH paintings show troopers VERY bunched together, if chaotically. I can't really think of one that doesn't, I guess.
But sometimes Euro paintings were commissioned by families of the deceased, and it was necessary to show important people around the key event, whether true or not, and perhaps that might explain it.
How about this thought,the canvas is is only so wide and armies are so incredibly large?  |
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Paintings Of Last Stands
