Tag: Sir George Clausen
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01 Work, The art of War, George Clausen’s Youth Mourning, with Footnotes
A naked young woman, personifying Youth, kneels in a grief-stricken attitude before a wooden cross marking a grave. In the distance are the flooded craters of a battlefield. Youth Mourning is a return to Clausen’s early style of painting. The painting is a response to the horrors of the First World War and, in particular,…