The Art of World War I Session 1 Early and Mid-War A Bitter - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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 OBHS Spencer Memorial Gateway Resurrection of the Soldiers (1928-9) Sandham Memorial Chapel Pre-1914-8 1923

Old dodderers who Paul Nash didn’t know how Making a New Sunrise 1918 to cope 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 Retreat from Mons, The Lady Butler Royal Horse Guards 1927 Scotland Forever (The Scots Greys at Waterloo) 1881

Ludwig Meidner Ludwig Apocalyptic Landscape, Burning 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 for Curtain Natalia for Le Coq D’or May 1914 Goncharova Natalia Goncharova The Pale Horse from Mystical St George the Images of War Victorious Lithograph 1914 William Blake 1914 Death on 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

Giacomo Ballà Ballà Dynamism of a Dog 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 Act ion 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 under the Trees The Card Players 1913 1915

Félix Vallotton The Ball 1899 Félix Vallotton 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 Beckmann The Morgue (Totenhaus) Self Portrait drypoint 1915 as Nurse and woodcut 1922 1915

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 Marc Fighting Forms 1914 Franz Marc The Greedy Mouth 1915

Ernst Barlach Ernst Barlach Holy War Mass Grave Lithograph lithograph 1915 1914

Ludwig Meidner The Last Day 1916

Albin Egger-Lienz 1915 1915 Albin Egger-Lienz 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) Universal War Magazine Self Portrait 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 The End End

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