Muirhead Bone, Tanks, 1918.

Honoring First Centenary: Fifteen Works that Define World War I

This year marks the beginning of the First World War Centenary which will go on till 2018. The participating countries will organise events paying tribute to the war heroes and advancements made in Literature, Art, Science and Technology among other fields. The War gave tremendous impetus to artists and a major chunk of art movements developed between the two World Wars.

Artsome lists a few works by eminent artists of the First World War, that define the historic event.

 CRW Nevinson, Returning to the Trenches, 1914.

CRW Nevinson, Returning to the Trenches, 1914.

David Bomberg, Sappers at WorkCanadian Tunnelling Company, R14, St Eloi, 1918 – 1919, charcoal drawing, 673 x 558 mm, Collection Imperial War Museum.

David Bomberg, Sappers at WorkCanadian Tunnelling Company, R14, St Eloi, 1918 – 1919, charcoal drawing, 673 x 558 mm, Collection Imperial War Museum.

Mary Riter Hamilton, Shelter Trench on the Somme, 1919.

Mary Riter Hamilton, Shelter Trench on the Somme, 1919.

Mary Riter Hamilton, Trenches on the Somme, 1919, oil on commercial canvas board, 37.8 x 45.8 cm.

Mary Riter Hamilton, Trenches on the Somme, 1919, oil on commercial canvas board, 37.8 x 45.8 cm.

Muirhead Bone, Tanks, 1918.

Muirhead Bone, Tanks, 1918.

Otto Dix, Trench Warfare, 1932.

Otto Dix, Trench Warfare, 1932.

Paul Nash, Battle of Britain, 1941.

Paul Nash, Battle of Britain, 1941.

Paul Nash, Landscape from a Dream, 1936–8, Oil paint on canvas, 679 x 1016 mm, Collection Tate.

Paul Nash, Landscape from a Dream, 1936–8, Oil paint on canvas, 679 x 1016 mm, Collection Tate.

Paul Nash, The Messerschmidt in Windsor Great Park, 1940, Pastel, graphite and watercolour on paper, 400 x 578 mm, Collection Tate.

Paul Nash, The Messerschmidt in Windsor Great Park, 1940, Pastel, graphite and watercolour on paper, 400 x 578 mm, Collection Tate.

Sir William Orpen, The Thinker, 1918.

Sir William Orpen, The Thinker, 1918.

William Orpen, ‘To the Unknown British Soldier in France’, 1921.

William Orpen, ‘To the Unknown British Soldier in France’, 1921.

Wyndham Percy Lewis, A Battery Shelled, 1919, oil painting, 1828 x 3175 mm, Collection Imperial War Museum.

Wyndham Percy Lewis, A Battery Shelled, 1919, oil painting, 1828 x 3175 mm, Collection Imperial War Museum.

Sources

– http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/inside-first-world-war/part-seven/10667519/first-world-war-defining-artists.html

– http://gerryco23.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/a-terrible-beauty-british-artists-in-the-first-world-war/