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Like many other artists who focus on historical subjects, Bradley takes attention to detail and historical
accuracy very seriously, striving to create as complete and accurate a depiction of an event as is possible
with the knowledge available and at the same time maintain the artistic creativity that makes art, art.
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(Click on one of the images above for a zoom image.)
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One of the biggest challenges Bradley faces in any given painting is condensing the immense panorama of a
battlefield gripped in the turmoil of war into a single image while still retaining a sense of the battle as a whole.
The process can sometimes seem like trying to describe an entire book with a single paragraph. But like the
old maxim 'a picture is worth a thousand words', Bradley is able to weave a dense tapestry of images to
create what even the best history books can't - a sense of the people whose lives had converged into a single
moment of history.
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Perhaps because of his ancestors involvement in the Revolutionary or Civil Wars (which Brad writes about in
a Brigade Section article) or because of his involvement with Civil War
Reenactments, Bradley finds guidance and inspiration
in his work by putting himself in the shoes of the people he's painting. Often, Brad will use himself as a model
and will occasionally make a 'cameo' appearance in some of his paintings as shown in some examples below.
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