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Description: | whole: the image fills the majority of the design with text, in black, incorporated in the top left and the bottom
half.
image: a mass of red bayonets, pointing up to the left, in silhouette against a white sky.
text: WAR
PICTURES BY NEVINSON
OFFICIAL WAR ARTIST ON THE WESTERN FRONT
LEICESTER GALLERIES
LEICESTER SQ. W.C.2.
10 TILL 6. ADMISSION 1/3 INCLUDING TAX.
This poster was designed by Nevinson to promote his second exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in March 1918. The
exhibition included a number of memorable paintings from his time as an official war artist, including ‘Paths of Glory’. The design
reflects a Futurist obsession with weaponry, short harsh words and thrusting angular shapes. Nevinson used the image of thrusting bayonets
in several of his artworks, including 'Reliefs at Dawn' (IWM ART 513), 'Marching Men, 1916' (IWM ART 5218) and later, 'The Unending Cult of
Human Sacrifice' (IWM ART 16717).
The poster was copied for propaganda use and on 21 July 1918, Nevinson wrote to CFG Masterman at the Department of Information, Wellington
House: "Could you advise me as to whom to apply on the War Bond Poster Dept, as I want to give them my red bayonet poster. They seem to
want it, as I notice they are always cribbing it – and none too well – in some effect or another".
CRW Nevinson was the most popular and controversial English artist of the First World War. He served as a medical orderly in Belgium and
London and under the influenced of the Italian Futurists produced stark, graphic images of soldiers and landscape caught in the machinery
of war. He was appointed an official war artist in 1917 and responded to the stalemate of the Western Front with images that reflected its
bitter and endless disillusionment. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Home Front & Art Exhibition Weapons Leicester Galleries & 3/1918 Christopher Richard Wynne Advertising Exhibition Nevinson First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | LEICESTER GALLERIES | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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