He played a key role in the development of Modernism in English art. Nash was one of the most important landscape artists of the first half of the twentieth century. In November 1917 he returned to the Front as a uniformed observer. While recuperating, he worked from sketches he had done at the Front to produce a series of drawings of the war. Days later the majority of his unit were killed. On the night of May 25th 1917, he fell into a trench, broke a rib and was invalided back to London. Paul Nash, (1889-1946) was sent to the Western Front as an officer in February 1917. Paul Nash, David Bomberg, Wyndham Lewis, Ford Maddox Ford “I never have the urge to paint animals ‘the way I see them,’ but rather the way they are…The way they themselves look at the world and feel their being.” Powerfully prophetic, his 1913 Fate of the Animals predicted some of the terrible animal slaughter (10 million horses alone) which lay ahead. But he was drafted into the German Army as a cavalryman, and struck in the head and killed by a shell splinter during the Battle of Verdun on March 4th, 1916, and modern art lost a giant in the making. “A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colours as feelings.”įranz Marc (1880 – 1916,) the visionary painter and founder of the German Expressionist Blue Rider movement, captured the excitement of the century in shards and streaks of fiery colour as he re-imagined nature and complex animal life through deeply empathic eyes. “We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us.” His dynamism of form, and deconstruction of solid mass, inspired many other artists. When war came, he joined up, was wounded in 1915, and died on August 17th, 1916 when he was thrown from his horse during a cavalry training exercise and trampled. Futurism celebrated war as a cleansing, energising force. Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916,) the influential, Italian futurist, created intensely dynamic images which were powerful symbols for the technological breakthroughs of the new century. “All that a pacifist can undertake – but it is a very great deal – is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another.” (Vera Brittain) Her fiancé Roland Leighton, two close friends, and brother Edward Brittain, were all killed during the war. He suffered frequent bouts of depression and finally committed suicide on November 3rd, 1914, traumatised after having served in a medical unit without any anaesthetics during the violent battle of Grodek against the Russians, the title of his masterpiece.Įach year, the head sinks lower and lower.”Ī number of prominent women writers exposed the plight of the shell-shocked soldiers (and their struggle to return to ‘normal’ life after the war): Rose Macaulay in Non-Combatants and Others (1916) Rebecca West in The Return of the Soldier (1918) Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway (1925) and Vera Brittain, in her cathartic memoir, Testament of Youth (1933).įrom the summer of 1915, Vera Brittain had worked as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in London, Malta and France. At the beginning of the war, he was sent as a medical official to attend soldiers in Galicia (now Ukraine and Poland). Georg Trakl (1887-1914) is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionist poets. It is a celebration of the creative legacies of lost artists Wilfred Owen, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Umberto Boccioni, Franz Marc, August Macke and Georg Trakl, and the post-war works of the survivors: Paul Nash, David Bomberg, Wyndham Lewis, Ford Maddox Ford, Otto Dix, Albin Egger- Lienz, Erich Maria Remarque, and the work of the women writers who exposed the plight of the shell-shocked: Rose Macaulay, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf and Vera Brittain. Teignmouth in World War I: 2018 exhibition, from September 11th to November11th. Triptych's which will be exhibited at Teign Heritage Centre to run with a It is also a celebration of the artists and writers who survived, who painted and wrote about what they had witnessed and experienced.Ĭreative Apocalypse is the making of 9 works of mixed-media assemblage in 3 It is a reminder, during this hundred year anniversary of the Armistice, that the war touched all sides. It is a pan-European response to the ‘Great’ War, in part an anticipation of its looming shadow and in part a response to its shell-shocked aftermath. Creative Apocalypse is a celebration of some of Britain and Europe’s greatest artists and writers who lost their lives during the First World War, and the creative legacies they left behind.
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