If you click here, you will get to an an introduction article on Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One at Tate Britain until 23rd September 2018. It is excellent, and considers some of the ways in which artists dealt with and reflected on the horrific consequences of war in the 1920s.
“A landscape that was once green in the foreground has
been splintered so it’s just a blackened husk, a washed out trench looks apocalyptic and only a lone upturned helmet signifies there was ever any life here. These paintings don’t contain any bodies or even a drop of blood, yet they convey the same message. War is horrific. War is futile. War is hell. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
Reviews.
- London List -War Is Horrific. War Is Futile. War Is Hell. That’s The Message At Tate Britain
- Time Out -Art in the Wake of World War
Mr Kydd.
