For anyone interested in WW1 and\or Art just seen an article in the Yorkshire Post on an exhibition of over 60 paintings of the first world war at York Art Gallery. Said to be the largest exhibition of British First World War art to be staged for nearly a century. Details are on the Art Gallery's web page; IT illiterate so no link, sorry. I just search "yorkartgallery" and up it popped. Brian
link > http://www.yorkartgallery.org.uk/exhibition/truth-and-memory-british-art-of-the-first-world-war/
Truth and Memory: British Art of the First World War 25 March – 4 September 2016 Truth and Memory: British Art of the First World War, is the largest exhibition of First World War art for nearly 100 years. York Art Gallery is the only venue outside London to display this collection of more than 60 artworks produced during the war and in its immediate aftermath. Many are by artists who themselves served on the front line and have helped to define how we understand the conflict. Working either privately or as official war artists, they wanted to give a true sense of the horror, human sacrifice and tragic consequences of ‘total war’. They reflected this in their fragmented depictions of soldiers, trenches, artillery, and in images of a torn and violated landscape. Modern artistic movements stressed the mechanised nature of the war and the new destruction this brought. These artists searched for reason and meaning in the conflict, finding ways to capture and commemorate the events of the First World War both at home and on the front lines and helped to form a collective memory that remains with us a century later. The exhibition features monumental paintings by Paul Nash, Wyndham Lewis, Stanley Spencer and William Roberts, commissioned for the proposed Hall of Remembrance, and also includes arresting works by CRW Nevinson, William Orpen, Anna Airy, Dorothy Coke and Jacob Epstein. The exhibition was originated by Imperial War Museums for the First World War Centenary and was first shown at IWM London. It has been specially reworked in partnership with York Art Gallery and features key works from York’s ownhttp://www.yorkartgallery.org.uk/exhibition/truth-and-memory-british-art-of-the-first-world-war/
