The Art of World War I
Session 1 Early and Mid-War A Bitter Truth: Avant-Garde Art and the Great War by Richard Cork
1994 Avant-Garde Art Movements
• Impressionism • Fauvism • Expressionism • Cubism • Vorticism • Futurism • Dada • New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit)
Stanley SpencerOBHS Memorial ResurrectionGateway of the Soldiers (1928-9)
Sandham Memorial ChapelPre-1914-8 1923 Old dodderers who Paul Nash didn’t know how toMaking cope a New Sunrise 1918 It is unspeakable, Godless, hopeless. I am no longer an artist interested and curious. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth And may it burn in their lousy souls. Lady Butler LadyRetreat Butler from Mons, The RoyalScotland Horse GuardsForever 1927 (The Scots Greys at Waterloo) 1881 Ludwig Meidner Apocalyptic Landscape, BurningLudwig City 1913 Meidner
I and the City
1913 Wassily Kandinsky Improvisation 30, Cannons 1913 Wyndham Lewis
Composition
1913 Vorticism Ludwig Meidner
On the Eve of War
1914 C.R.W. Nevinson
1915
1916 Ernst Barlach The Holy War (1914) and Donna nobis pacem (1916)
1914 1916 Georg Grosz The Shell (pen and ink) 1915
Max Beckmann Weeping Woman (Weinende Frau) (drypoint) 1914 August Macke Farewell 1914
Little Walter's Toys 1912 Wyndham Lewis Combat No.2 1914 Peter August Böckstiegel Departure of the Youngsters 1914 Ernst Barlach The Avenger 1914 Natalia Goncharova design forNatalia Curtain for Le Coq D’or May 1914Goncharova Natalia GoncharovaThe Pale Horse
from Mystical St ImagesGeorge of theWar Victorious Lithograph William1914 Blake Death on1914 a Pale Horse c.1800 Aristarkh Lentulov A Victorious Battle 1914
Self Portrait 1915 Kasimir Malevich
Private of the First Division
1914 Sickert The New Bedford Music Hall 1915/6
Walter Sickert Tipperary 1914 Walter Sickert
The Soldiers of King Albert at the Ready
1914 Raoul Dufy The End of the Great War 1915 Filippo Marinetti Parole in libertà (Irredentismo) 1914-5 Carlo Carrà Interventionist Demonstration 1914 Umberto Boccioni Charge of the Lancers 1915 Max Liebermann Now we will thrash you! 1914 Alfred Kubin
Torch of War
1914 Ballà DynamismGiacomo of a Dog Ballà on a Leash 1912 Patriotic Demonstration 1915 Jean Cocteau
Dante on our Side
June 1915 Gino Severini
Blue Dancer
1912 Severini
Visual Synthesis of the Idea, War
1914 Severini Cannon in Action 1915 Severini
Armoured Train in Action
1915 Christopher R.W. Nevinson Returning to the Trenches 1915 Nevinson Flooded Trench on the Yser 1915 Nevinson
Bursting Shell
1915 Nevinson
La Mitrailleuse
1915 Nevinson
The First Searchlights at Charing Cross
1915 William Roberts St George and the Dragon 1915 Vanessa Bell By Roger Fry Brooke 1916 Duncan Grant
In Memoriam, Rupert Brooke
1915
Fernand Léger Fernand Léger The House underThe Cardthe Trees Players
19131915 Félix VallottonFélix VallottonThe Ball 1899 Landscape with Ruins and Fires 1915
Self 1914 Vallotton Barbed Wire 1916 Marsden Hartley
Portrait of a German Officer
1914 Otto Dix
Self Portrait as Soldier
1914 Otto Dix
Self Portrait with Artillery Helmet
1914 Otto Dix
Self Portrait as Mars
1915 Otto Dix
Self Portrait as Target
1915 Max Beckmann Max BeckmannThe Morgue (Totenhaus) Self Portrait drypointas Nurse1915 and woodcut1915 1922 Georg Grosz Air Attack 1915
Georg Grosz
Riot of the Insane
1915 Ernst Ludwig Kirschner
Artillerymen in the Shower
1915 Ludwig Kirschner
The Drinker - Self Portrait (The Absinthe Drinker)
1915 Kirschner
Self Portrait as Soldier
1915 Frans FranzMarc MarcFighting Forms 1914 The Greedy Mouth 1915 Ernst Barlach Ernst Barlach Holy War Mass Grave Lithograph lithograph 1915 1914 Ludwig Meidner The Last Day 1916 AlbinAlbinEggerEgger-Lienz-Lienz1915 1915 The Nameless Ones 1916 (2.5 x 4.75m) Gustav Klimt Death and Life 1908- 11 (revised 1915-6) Gustave Klimt Death and Life 1908-16
1911 – gold gone 1915-16 Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin On the Firing Line 1915-6 Olga Rozanova (Russian)
UniversalSelf Portrait War Magazine 1912 War (Collage) 1916 Olga Rozanova Illustration for Universal War; Explosion in a Trunk (collage) 1916 Per Krohg
The Grenade
1916 George Clausen Youth Mourning 1916-1928 Harold Gilman Tea in the Bed-Sitter 1916 Nevinson French Troops Resting 1916 Mark Gertler
Merry-Go- Round
1916 Muirhead Bone Tanks 1916 Erich Heckel Springtime in Flanders 1916
Self portrait woodcut 1919 Ernst Barlach
From a Modern Dance of Death
1916 Klaus Bergen U-Boat Surface Action 1917 Childe Hassam
Allies Day May 1917 Claude Monet
The Rue Montorgueil, Paris. Celebration of 30 June 1878 A successful rat-hunt in the trenches 1917 Nevinson
Explosion
1917 Georg Grosz Explosion 1917 Henri Valensi Expression of the Dardanelles 1917 Félix Vallotton Verdun 1917 Félix Vallotton Military Cemetery at Châlons-sur-Marne 1917 László Moholy-Nagy Landscape with Barbed Wire (crayon) 1917 The End Maybe use in Propaganda session