Irish Artists at War Part Three William Orpen (1879-1931) Orpen at Versailles The career of William Orpen, Irish artist, both before and during the Great War gave the British government little hint of what was truly going on behind his so-far acceptable works of art....
Irish Artists at War Part Two William Orpen (1879-1931) Orpen in Flanders What would it take to make an Official War Artist go rogue? At the end of the Great War, Irish artist, William Orpen was asked to remember the sacrifices of the British Army, albeit, in an...
Irish Artists at War Part One John Lavery (1856-1941) Apparently Sigmund Freud never said of the Irish, “This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever,” but the idea that it is pointless to attempt to fathom “the...
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...
