X Company Characters as Art!
Names and explanations under the cut as always for those who want them <3
Thank you to @sgtjakes who helped lots 🩷
Alfred Graves:
His was like the third I did, ever, I just never did the others until more recently
Wheatfield with Cypresses - Vincent Van Gogh - “shades of blue” (also I’ve seen it in person and it’s soooo pretty)
The Water Lily Pond - Claude Monet - when I made this one I’d seen it in person like a week before and I adore it
Death (1897) - Janis Rozentāls - reminded of the uniform he has to wear when he goes to try and save the girls in s1e5
Northern Light - Bror Lindh - Blue and it’s an Aurora (and it matches her too)
Still Life with Cherries and Peaches - Paul Cézanne - Cherries with garlic and salt! My favourite little freak <333
The Dog - Francisco Goya - it’s pathetic and so’s he (affectionate)
Among the Waves - Ivan Aivazovsky - Blue innit
Water lilies - Claude Monet - Blue againnnn
Crucifixion - Francis Bacon - Reminded me of when his vision goes black and white when he’s tied up and being tortured
Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh - Surprise surprise, it’s blue
Aurora Luft:
Single penguin in the dark, aurora - David Abbey-Paige - it’s the Aurora Australis (southern lights) and I liked the penguin
Aurora Triumphing over Night - Jean-Honoré Fragonard - She’s called Aurora, it’s on the nose but I don’t care
Almond Blossoms - Vincent Van Gogh - Matches Alfred’s Van Gogh’s and she also wears a fair amount of blue (and is also blue to Alfred)
The two girlfriends - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - is this because I think Aurora and Sabine should have lezzed out? Yeah.
Water lilies, red - Claude Monet - Matches Alfred, but also she wears red lipstick regularly
Clytemnestra - John Collier - that is one vengeful woman, and so’s Aurora (albeit in a different way)
Morning Star - Alphonse Mucha - Aurora (the Roman goddess) isn’t technically the morning star but I still think it fits for Aurora (Luft). Plus I love Mucha
The Frigate “Aurora” - Ivan Aivazovsky - His. Paintings. Are so. Yummy. And it’s called Aurora so.
Birth of Venus - Botticelli - It just vibed honestly
A Cloud Study, Sunset - John Constable - Her name is Aurora Luft, which means air, therefore clouds!
Northern Light - Bror Lindh - Aurora Borealis this time! And matches Alfred!
Neil MacKay:
The Nightmare - John Henry Fuseli - He has those nightmares about the German soldier he killed
Battle of the Standard, Northallerton, 22nd August 1138 - John Gilbert - He mentions his nice is in Northallerton when he’s talking to the bombardier they rescue and it stuck out to me (probably cause I’m Northern™️)
The Dog - Francisco Goya - He matches Alfred, and he does feel quite dog-ish, and it’s brown
Academic Study of a Male Torso - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (yeah that’s a triple hyphenated name) - Neil’s tits. I couldn’t not include some reference to them.
The Meadow - Alfred Sisley - He’s just so meadowful. And I know he was a farm lad as a boy I can Feel It
Figures in a landscape - Francis Bacon - it’s brown, and my Francis bacon weakness strikes again
Birch Forest - Gustav Klimt - He’s very woodsy in general, but also they all spend a lot of time in the woods
Nine Dragons (detail, it’s one of them) - Chen Rong - He was a police officer in Shanghai pre-spying
Water lilies - Claude Monet - It matches Alfred! (And by extension Aurora, but Alfred specifically)
Wheatfield with Crows - Vincent Van Gogh - Matches Alfred’s Wheatfield, and is a bit darker and moodier
Study of poppies - John Constable - poppies are a war thing. That’s about it really.
Harry James:
Gallery of the Louvre - Samuel Morse - Painted by the man who invented Morse code!!
The Railroad bridge in Argenteuil - Claude Monet - he does blow a bridge up in episode one
Joan of Arc - John Everett Millais - he dies fighting for what he believes in
Crocuses (maybe, I couldn’t find a specific name for it, but those are crocuses at any rate) - Karol Klosowski - it’s pretty, and it’s a meadow and I thought it fit him
Tragedy - Gustav Klimt - both him and Tom dying is very tragic so it fit in my mind
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas - Caravaggio - He’s called Thomas and he gets a side wound like Jesus. Yes it’s tenuous, no I don’t care.
The Flame (Goddess of Fire) - Odilon Redon - His whole thing is blowing stuff up, that’s quite flame-ful
Autumn - Alphonse Mucha - mostly just vibes and matches Spring in Tom’s
City on Fire - Olga Rosanova - again, he blows things up a fair amount
Wheatstacks (End of Summer) - Claude Monet - He calms Alfred down with straw/hay (not sure which off the top of my head) and I liked the colours
Field with poppies - Vincent Van Gogh - Poppies again.
Guernica - Pablo Picasso - it’s war, and it’s one of the most famous paintings of bombings, and Harry blows a lot of stuff up
Tom Cummings:
Spring - Alphonse Mucha - I don’t really have any explanations other than vibes (and it matches Autumn in Harry’s)
The Death of Icarus - Alexandre Cabanel - he does fall to his death on a beach. Sorry.
Portrait of Djordje Milićević - Will Barnet - Tom’s thing is photography, or at least I associate it with him
Landscape - Paul Cézanne - Again, they’re in a forest a lot, and that is where his final stand takes place
Poppies - John Singer Sargent - oh look, poppies again.
Tree and Undergrowth - Vincent Van Gogh - Forest!
The Sundog Painting - Jacob Heinrich Elbfas - it’s kind of like his hair colour, and he just feels very beige
Tragedy - Gustav Klimt - it’s all so bloody tragic, especially him and Harry dying
Football Player - J. C. Leyendecker - it looks like Tom.
Dark Forest - Ivan Shishkin - Oh look a forest again
Rocky Cliff Woth Stormy Sea, Cornwall - William Trost Richards - he does fall off a cliff. Sorry.
Franz Faber:
Untitled (helmeted soldier) - Zdzisław Beksiński - it’s creepy as hell and a soldier
Illustration from Un Autre Monde - Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (at the very least he’s the author) - It’s sugar beets being beaten up by sugarcane and that is both hilarious to me and there’s his monologue to Alfred about them
Couple descending the stairs/Advertisement for the arrow collar man - J. C. Leyendecker - That’s so young Franz and Sabine look at it
The Japanese Bridge or The Lily Pond - Claude Monet - it matches Sabine’s, but darker
Pyramid of Skulls - Paul Cézanne - I think he does the most killing out of everyone (and also the skull on his uniform hat)
Figure with Meat - Francis Bacon - it’s creepy, and sort matches Crucifixion in Alfred’s because I have some kind of Emotion about the fact Alfred only has flashback-type-things to his torture when he sees Faber getting beaten. not sure what that emotion is, but I have it, therefore they get to have matching Francis Bacons.
Skull - Vincent Van Gogh - see above re: pyramid of skulls
War - Ken Currie - It’s pretty unnerving and it’s war themed
Field with poppies - Vincent Van Gogh - yeah he gets poppies too
Untitled (they’re all untitled. All of his paintings are untitled)(the blue death with a cradle one) - Zdzisław Beksiński - it’s death and a baby, but creepier than Sabine’s.
Separation - Edvard Munch - it reminded me of when Sabine pulls away from him after Ulli’s death
Sabine Faber:
Death (1897) - Janis Rozentāls - she wears white a lot, but also that’s death and a baby. Yeah.
Meadow, 1879 - Claude Monet - reminded me of when she goes and joins the resistance at the end <33
Portrait of Madame X - John Singer Sargent - she’s not that scandalous, but I do think she’s that fashionable and I love her for it
Geese in the Creek - Claude Monet - it’s pretty and like the meadow at the end when she joins the resistance
The two friends - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Again, is this because I want Aurora and Sabine to lezz out? Yeah.
Couple descending the stairs/Advertisement for the arrow collar man - J. C. Leyendecker - That’s so young Franz and Sabine look at it, part two!
Two Women Kissing in Nature - Georges Rochegrosse - see previous about wanting Sabine and Aurora to lezz out
Dancers - Franz Von Stuck - I debated this for ages and decided that sod it, it’s going in. It’s just vibes honestly
Garden with Weeping Willow - Vincent Van Gogh - pretty and vibeful and also she should have got to cry (weeping) more to be honest. It makes sense to me okay
Water-Lily Pond, Symphony in Rose - Claude Monet - I liked it and it matches a different water-lily one in Franz’s
Lily - Alphonse Mucha - I thought it looked a bit like her and also Vibes
Thank you for reading this far, if you have I love you <33
