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Paul Nash: Art of the Second World War

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This epic painting, The Battle of Britain, is one of Paul Nash’s best-known compositions. Over several months in the summer and autumn of 1940, the RAF fought the Battle of Britain against the Luftwaffe in the skies above the south coast of England.… Read more

A Cry from the Heart – Picasso, Guernica, and British artists

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Posted by administrator on April 6, 2015     Permalink     Leave a comment

In this masterpiece painting, style and subject are completely united, with the jagged fragmentation of the face, thick black lines and harsh colours expressing the woman’s agonised grief. Weeping Woman is part of Picasso’s emotional response to the bombing of civilians in the city… Read more

A North-East Artist in the Trenches in World War 1

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Posted by administrator on July 21, 2014     Permalink     Comments (3)

This view of soldiers in a trench on the Somme battlefront around Péronne was drawn by Victor Noble Rainbird, a local artist who fought with various battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers during the First World War. His sketch shows a… Read more