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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
The Doctor (1916) (Art.IWM ART 725). At the outbreak of World War I, Nevinson joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit, which his father had helped to found.From 13 November 1914, Nevinson spent nine weeks in France with the FAU and the British Red Cross Society, mostly working at a disused goods shed by Dunkirk rail station known as the Shambles.
British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700–1914. (London: Greenhill, 1993). ISBN 1-85367-157-6; Haycock, David Boyd. "A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War". (London: Old Street Publishing). Hichberger, J.W.M. (1988). Images of the Army: The Military in British Art 1815–1914 ...
[1] In this same period, academic and realist artists continued to produce new work. Traditional artists and their artwork developed side by side with the shock of the new as culture reinvented itself in relationships with new technologies. [2] Some artists responded positively to the changes wrought by war. C. R. W.
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.
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. German painter and printmaker (1891–1969) For the Russian band, see Otto Dix (band). Otto Dix Otto Dix (photograph by Hugo Erfurth, c. 1933) Born Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (1891-12-02) 2 December 1891 Untermhaus, Reuß-Gera, German Empire (present-day Gera, Germany) Died 25 July 1969 ...
The BWMC which began recruiting artists to compile a record of the war in France and at home. Paul Nash had spent the spring of 1917 in the Ypres Salient and returned there as an official artist in November that year. Along with Christopher Nevinson, Nash made a special study of the experience of the Third Battle of Ypres. [2]