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Swynnerton to Nevinson. Holman Hunt to Freud. Some of my favourite details from the permanent collection @mcrartgallery 🏛🎨
#BlueMonday
GF Watts ‘Violet Lindsay’; watercolour study of drapery; ‘Unknown Landscape’
Couldn't let today's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange on Self Portraits pass without mentioning Watts!
'I paint myself constantly, that is to say whenever I want to make an experiment in method or colour'
Self-Portrait in the Style of Van Dyck, c.1831 and Self Portrait, 1904
Still thinking of parallels between works in #CuttingEdgeDPG & earlier egs from early British modernists
Lill Tschudi, ‘Fixing the Wires’, 1932, linocut & CRW Nevinson ‘Nerves of the Army’, 1918, drypoint
Tschudi’s print ironically executed in Nevinson’s more recognisable style
Exploring the trauma of objects as victims and silent witnesses of war. His recreations or surrogates which in turn become ‘ghosts’ of the lost or destroyed originals.
‘Who do they need to haunt? Who needs to be reminded?’
One for @stuffofwar fans - Nazi chess set @rijksmuseum - pieces depict a different weapon & border lists countries attacked in 1939 & 40
My #HistoryBooksByWomen and #Waysofsheing picks for #WW1 art research! #WarArt
Dave McKean discusses influence of #WW1 #WarArtist Paul Nash on his @1418NOW commission; https://t.co/olCOkEdExj
"I was trained in #war long before my doomed generation." C.R.W. #Nevinson Paint & Prejudice, 1937 #WarArtists #WW1
Why did critics in 1917 label these works 'disappointing'? Read more; http://t.co/NR1KyzlpfO #WW1 #WarArtists