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A Balloon Site, Coventry is an oil-on-canvas painting undertaken in 1942 by the British artist Laura Knight.It portrays a group of people—mostly women—working to launch a barrage balloon on the outside of Coventry, an industrial city in the Midlands that was the target of a German bombing raid in November 1940, when over 10,000 incendiary bombs were dropped on the city.
World War I very largely confirmed the end of the glorification of war in art, which had been in decline since the end of the previous century. [43] In general, and despite the establishment of large schemes employing official war artists , the most striking art depicting the war is that emphasizing its horror.
The painting depicts the interior of a British Short Stirling bomber of the Royal Air Force. Inside the plane there are four of the seven crew members, who are preparing for take off before another night raid on Nazi Germany during World War II. Two pilots sit in the cockpit, while a navigator studies his maps, and in the foreground a flight ...
Choosing to make a detailed painting of a photograph itself created an abstraction — if “abstract” is defined as the quality of dealing with an idea, rather than an event. Somehow, that ...
Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. [1] [2] It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. [3]
The commissions included some of the most prominent British modernist painters at the time. The Hall of Remembrance was never realised and the paintings were transferred to the Imperial War Museum. [1] Lewis served in the Royal Artillery at the Battle of Passchendaele and could draw from this experience when making the painting. [3]
The First and Second World Wars saw a dramatic increase in the production of war art in every medium. [82] A few First World War paintings were exhibited in the Senate of Canada Chamber, and artists studied these works as a way of preparing to create new artworks in the conflict in Europe which expanded after 1939. [83]
An oil painting of a Māori elder by New Zealand painter Charles Frederick Goldie was sold at an auction for a record £1.7m, becoming the most valuable work in New Zealand’s art history.