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Description: | G. Clausen. 1916.
image: A naked young woman, personifying Youth, kneels in a grief-stricken attitude before a wooden cross marking a grave.
In the distance are the flooded craters of a battlefield.
Youth Mourning is a return to his early style of painting. The painting is a response to the horrors of the First
World War and, in particular, the death of Clausen’s own daughter’s fiancé. He uses the nakedness of the figure and the starkness of the
barren landscape to emphasise the grief and emptiness of death.
Optimised | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Allegory Death Western Front 1914-1918 Landscape artist's response Western Front First World War nudes | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Clausen, George | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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