National Gallery

  #1 This painting shows a scene from the Japanese Occupation. From the painting, I can sense the fear from the prisoners as the Japanese soldier is about to hit them with his rifle. It would seem that they are being herded to a camp for holding prisoners-of-war, or worse, execution. I can only imagine what it must have been like to be living under such harsh conditions and seeing visual representation of the past gives us a better understanding […]