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World War I Art. Jozelyna Calderon. cksinfo.com. “Sea Dancer” by Gino Severini was a painting from January of 1914, before the war had started. The painting, as you can tell, is very light and gives off a happy vibe. galligans-graphicdesigner.blogspot.com.
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World War I Art Jozelyna Calderon cksinfo.com
“Sea Dancer” by Gino Severini was a painting from January of 1914, before the war had started. The painting, as you can tell, is very light and gives off a happy vibe. galligans-graphicdesigner.blogspot.com
“Der Kriegsausbruch,” “Declaration of War,” by Max Beckmann is a drawing of what he saw in the streets when the people of Berlin were given the news of the war. www.art-ww1.com
Alfred Kubin’s artwork, Die Kriegsfackel (The Torch of War), made in December of 1914, shows his fear of what he thought the war would turn out to be. www.art-ww1.com
Roger de la Fresnaye’s oil painting, Artillery, shows the weapons being prepared to be used by the army in the war. www.art-ww1.com
Alfred Basel’s “Attack on the Village of Stary Korczyn by the Vienna First Infantry Regiment on December 22nd 1914” shows a group of army men sneaking up on a village of their enemies. www.art-ww1.com
Max Beckmann’s “The Operation” shows Max’s view of being a nurse during the first year of the war. www.art-ww1.com
Lovis Corinth’s “Portrait of Hermann Struck” was a portrait of one of his friends posing for him in his officer uniform in 1915. www.art-ww1.com
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s drawing, “The Machine Gun in Action,” shows his use of cubism to illustrate the weapon used when a soldier was at war. www.art-ww1.com
C. R. W. Nevison’s “Returning to the Trenches” shows a group of soldiers returning to fight in trench warfare after a period of leave. The soldiers seem to be weighed down by all the weapons, but are traveling back to the trenches quickly. www.art-ww1.com
Oskar Kokoschka’s “The Front at Isonzo” shows the abandoned town after being destroyed because of an attack in 1916. www.art-ww1.com
André Mare’s “Self-Portrait” shows himself in a state of cubism using mainly the colors of the French flag in 1916. He was killed at war shortly after he did this piece of work. www.art-ww1.com
“Hell,” by Georges Leroux, shows his representation of the reality of the horrific state of the land after a battle during the war in 1917. www.art-ww1.com
Pierre Bonnard’s “A Village in Ruins Near Ham” shows the destruction of the village in 1917. Bonnard’s assigned task during the war was to go and paint what he saw, which he did very well. www.art-ww1.com
Maurice Denis’ “Quiet Evening on the Front Line” shows how not every second of the war was fast paced battling. Some moments were relaxed and calm. In this art work, the soldiers are just lounging around, gaining their energy back. www.art-ww1.com
John D. Fergusson’s “Dockyard, Portsmouth” shows how in 1918, the war is calming and things are becoming somewhat normal again, but there is still fighting going on. www.art-ww1.com
John Lavery’s “A Convy, North Sea” shows an airship guiding and protecting a convoy off the coast of Norway towards the end of the war in 1918. www.art-ww1.com
Edward Alexander Wadsworth’s “Dazzled-Ships in Drydock at Liverpool” shows how in 1919, artists were starting to drift away from making pieces of artwork about the war. www.art-ww1.com
Paul Nash’s “The Menin Road” shows how even though parts of the world were getting back to normal after the war, there were still signs of its passing through everywhere. www.art-ww1.com
Works Cited www.art-ww1.com www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk www.cksinfo.com www.angelfire.com www.trenchart.org www.artdaily.com