Nov 12, 2020 · 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, …

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 …

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 …

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. By the end of World …

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 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 …

Jul 3, 2024 · Through art, such as paintings of WWI, we can see how intense and overwhelming the time was for everyone, even if it pales next to the events that began two decades later. …

Jun 13, 2014 · We found that the record group consists of thousands of photographs taken in World War I by the Army Signal Corps (SC). The Army was careful to maintain a record of the …

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 …