Alexander Kanevsky painting "War" (2002) whereupon 366 cm of wood panel Alexander offers the stereoscopical view of the intrapsychic origins of a necessities and orgies to fight , unlike most of the histories telling of the external manifestations of war fairs be there 3 punic wars of Hanibal with Rome, the Jewish War of Vespasian and Titus Flavius, Ancient Roman Wars narrated by Histories of Tacitus, Trojan War by Homer and Virgil, warfares of Alexander, Attila, Julius Caesar, Jen Ghis Khan, Napoleon, Teutonic  Knights, Vikings, Spanish Armada and English Fleet, American Indians, Ottoman Turks, 2 World Wars of the 20th Century.Leo Tolstoy "War and Peace" touched psychological and philosophical aspects of men engaging in warfare, whereof aggression instinct presence is demonstrated; the aggression instinct presence is emphasized in polemics and accounts of Civil Wars of Russia and Spain in 20th century. It is very pronounced of course in HG Wells ``War of the Worlds``, Picasso's "Guernica", Dali's "Premonition of Civil  War", Wars of Giants and Titans from Greeck Mythology, Samurai Wars with Japan, Peloponnesian Wars, wars of Bolivar and St. Martin for South America, Vietnam and Korean War and Middle Eastern Warfares of the USA.Kanevsky agrees with Freud insisting upon aggression instinct being born from the sexual one, so eloquently expressed on the artist's painting including the chopped head of a horse standing on its nose, symbolizing castration anxiety complex so intimately intertwined with the sexual instinct. A British sculpture copied Kanevsky's Horse and sold the sculpture to Philadelphia's Parx Casino. The pivotal image of the castrator is again a shark, a predecessor in Kanevsky's 2008 iconic "Shark". Michelangelesque bodies in the painting exhibit muscles in their absolutely phallic tension. This is what any war is absolutely about. This is why people say "France in the 19th century and Hitler in the 20th century got castrated by Otto Bismarck. 

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