Tag: Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson
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01 Work, The Art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s La Mitrailleuse/ The Machine Gun, with footnotes
Christopher Nevinson identified with the Italian futurist art movement. They celebrated and embraced the speed and efficient power of the modern age. Nevinson’s experience as an ambulance driver in the First World War, however, changed his view of the potential of a mechanised world. In this painting, soldiers fighting in France are reduced to a…
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01 Work, The art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s Paths Of Glory, with Footnotes
In one of Nevinson’s most famous paintings, we see the bodies of two dead British soldiers behind the Western Front. The ‘Paths of Glory’ was famously censored by the official censor of paintings and drawings in France, Lieutenant – Colonel A N Lee. His concern presumably being the representation of the rotting and bloated British corpses…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s Ypres after the First Bombardment, with footnotes
Nevinson depicts a desolate scene of the smoking, burning carcass of the Belgian city of Ypres after it was first bombed in 1914. Nevinson would have witnessed the scarred remains of the city while enlisted with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit as a driver on the Western Front. The skeleton of the once magnificent city, with…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s A Taube, with footnotes
The Taube (Taube translates as ‘Dove’, taub as ‘death’) was a German reconnaisance plane but carried bombs that could be thrown from the cockpit. The casual violence of the scene marks the increasing vulnerability of the civilian population. Both the title and the evidence of an explosion imply that this was the cause of death…
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