Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) The Artist in the Balkans Part One There was no possibility that Stanley Spencer, recently graduated from Slade School of Art in 1914, would ever join up the be a soldier in what would be named The Great War. The painter was too small and...
Christopher Nevinson; Painting the War The Future of Futurism On April 23rd in 1915, the poet Rupert Brooke died on the island of Lemnos from a mosquito bite on his lip. Already weekend by dysentery and heat stroke, he fell victim to blood poisoning, a soldier to the...
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889-1946) The Young Futurist Goes to War 1914-1915 In 2011 English art historian, James Fox, the very cute successor for Michael Wood, discussed Christopher Nevinson in his British Masters series. He explained that Nevinson was...
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889-1946) The Artist as a Futurist, Part One Although it may sound counter-intuitive, outside of Italy, it was on the soil of England that Futurism found most fertile. After being attacked by Umberto Boccioni in the catalogue for...
Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949) The Artist at War: The Dazzle Ships If the Great War can be characterized by any one metaphor it would be that of the Closed Mind and a Determined Refusal to accept the mechanization of war. On land, strategy and tactics remained fixated...
Artists at War Hide and Seek and Camouflage One of the odd aspects of the Great War is the surprising fact that it was during these four years that the British artists not only met the challenge of depicting a new kind of war but they also left behind a unique legacy...
