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Yale Centre for British Art A photograph similar to Gassed of British troops blinded by poison gas during the Battle of Estaires, 1918. The painting measures 231.0 by 611.1 centimetres (7 ft 6.9 in × 20 ft 0.6 in). The composition includes a central group of eleven soldiers depicted nearly life-size.
This category is for War artists whose main topical focus was the first World War. Many of these artists were official artists for their respective governments, but some have produced work post-War. Contents
British official war artists were a select group of artists who were employed on contract, or commissioned to produce specific works during the First World War, the Second World War and select military actions in the post-war period. [1] Official war artists have been appointed by governments for information or propaganda purposes and to record ...
War Art: Murals and Graffiti – Military Life, Power and Subversion. Bootham: Council for British archaeology. ISBN 978-1-902771-56-4; OCLC 238785409; United States. Cornebise, Alfred. (1991). Art from the trenches: America's Uniformed Artists in World War I. College Station: Texas A & M University Press. ISBN 978-0-89096-349-4; OCLC 22892632
Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917 by Paul Nash.Nash was a war artist in both World War I and World War II. A war artist is an artist either commissioned by a government or publication, or self-motivated, to document first-hand experience of war in any form of illustrative or depictive record.
By the time the First World War broke out, he was a frequent contributor to periodicals, such as the Sporting and Dramatic, in the days before photography had become general. In the early part of the war, as an artist for The Graphic , he sketched many scenes from the front in France before entering the Royal Naval Air Service as a rating Motor ...