John McCrae, a surgeon in the Canadian Army, wrote possibly one of the most famous pieces of war poetry, In Flanders Fields ... by looking at some of the art created during, and in the aftermath ...

“If ye break faith with us who die/We shall not sleep, though poppies grow/In Flanders fields” The poem is still used at many memorial ceremonies and is one of the most well-known works of art ...

A purple carpet of 50,000 allium flowers is blooming across the battlefields of Flanders Fields, as a symbol of international ...

That combined with a particularly hot spring in 1915 led to Flanders Field near Ypres bursting into ... Vincent van Gogh created hundreds of pieces of art over the course of his life, but some ...

is a small cottage called McCrae House, named for doctor, soldier and poet John McCrae, author of the beloved poem “In Flanders Fields.” McCrae was born there 150 years ago in 1872. Appropriately, the ...

Stencil graffiti street art featuring a Sylvia Plath in a dress ... see another aspect of war’s impact. You can read "In Flanders Field" by John McCrae, which is old enough to have shifted ...

Lize Feryn (Marie Boesman)Wietse Tanghe (Guillaume Boesman)Matthieu Sys (Vincent Boesman)Barbara Sarafian (Virginie Boesman)Wim Opbrouck (Philippe Boesman)Jonas Van Geel (Leon)Sven Mattke (Hans ...

To start this endeavor, Mrs. Pinchot and her collector friends loaned or donated over 500 pieces to the National Museum, “many of them old, rare and costly, and covered a very-diversified field of ...

MORE than a century after the First World War, relics of the conflict remain beneath the ground in Flanders. Weapons and bullets are still unearthed in gardens and fields, along with everyday ...

Julie Flanders, co-founder of OCTOBER PROJECT and award-winning lyricist, released her third poetry collection, Watermarked.

‘Fashion is a living art form that requires most of our senses for its fullest ... The actor Morgan Spector recites John McCrae’s 1915 poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ as a voiceover to Philip Treacy for ...

Like Steve Martin, his friend and junior by a few years, he was an accomplished instrumentalist; as a purveyor of witty comic ...