Edward Hopper,  Summertime, 1943, Hopper documents the economic upswing caused by the war, the mood of anticipation that was beginning to affect the nation, and the new relaxed morals of youth in this country. Summertime presents a young girl in a see-through dress standing outside a tenement. The outfit, obviously new, refers to the increased prosperity of the nation, which at last had been able to put aside many of the difficulties of the Depression.   The U.S. Treasury Department estimated in 1943, the year Summertime was painted, that Americans at home had saved some seventy billion dollars in cash, checking accounts, and redeemable war bonds. The department's general counsel referred to this accrued money as "liquid dynamite," and his reference aptly characterizes...

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Η Ελλάδα στα ερείπια του Μεσολογγίου  (γαλλ.  La Grèce sur les ruines de Missolonghi ) είναι πίνακας του Γάλλου ζωγράφου  Ευγένιου Ντελακρουά  ( Eugène Delacroix)  εμπνευσμένο από την μάχη των...

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