When Britain fought in the First World War, it was a time of major changes in artistic movements, and the period is particularly rich with a variety of art styles.

Oct 16, 2017 · Artists searched for an appropriate language to express the chaos and carnage that resulted from modern industrial warfare, reevaluating subject matter, techniques, materials, and styles, as well as their positions and responsibilities as cultural producers.

The works chosen for this exhibition reflect the focus of wartime art on World War I patriotic and propaganda messages—by government-supported as well as independent and commercial artists.

Aug 12, 2014 · Armed with sketchpads, charcoals, pastels and little to no military training, the artists embedded with the American Expeditionary Forces and sketched everything from rolling tanks to portraits of...

Aug 4, 2021 · After experiencing the horrors of World War I, many German artists depicted fear, anxiety, and violence to show its devastating effects on postwar Germany. Published: Aug 4, 2021 written by Stella Polyzoidou, BA Archaeology and History of Art.

As the medium of art changed and became more expansive, artists revisited the war to reflect on its legacy in new ways. Photography showed the lasting impacts of war and represented a far more realistic and directed depiction than painting.

Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts highlights the diverse ways artists represented the horrors of modern warfare.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum's battlefield watercolors by artist and soldier Claggett Wilson (available to view online) and works by other artists in the American Expeditionary Forces paint a recognizable picture of life at war.

The trauma of World War I provided the impetus for a wealth of art, literature and music. From Wilfred Owen’s harrowing poem Dulce et Decorum Est to the works of artist Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, the pieces produced during this period have left an indelible mark on our cultural landscape.

The First World War was largely viewed as catastrophic for modern art. Major revisions to art history in the 1970s and 1980s, led to the deconstruction of the myth of autonomy and opened up the possibility of rethinking art and war including the use of theoretical approaches such as psychoanalysis, gender and cultural theory.