DOI Heft:
No. 293 (August 1917)
DOI Artikel:Salaman, Malcolm C.: The Great War: Britain's efforts and ideals depicted by British artists
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21263#0119
The Great War: Britain s Efforts and Ideals
THE GREAT WAR: BRITAIN'S
EFFORTS AND IDEALS DEPICTED
BY BRITISH ARTISTS
THE artists of the Allied nations are
playing, their part bravely in the
war, and the British artists as heroi-
cally as any. From the beginning
they have been fighting and giving their lives
freely, and as freely they have given their art
-to picturing incidentally the national share in
the titanic struggle, or expressing in telling
cartoon its tragic ironies or its spiritual signifi-
cance. For the first time in history too they
have convinced a British Government of the
importance of pictorial impressions, artistically
recorded amid the actualities of war, as an
historical factor and a patriotic inspiration for
future generations. Now we have the artists
organizing themselves for a concerted adventure
in patriotic expression.
Eighteen British artists of distinction have
united to depict the practical aspect of Britain's
physical and material efforts towards winning
the war, and to interpret in allegorical design
the ideals for which she is fighting and sacri-
ficing. And happily they have chosen for their
medium lithography, a beautifully expressive
method, with the virtues of which most of
them had already shown themselves familiar,
and they have chosen it for their present
emprise chiefly because of its capacity for
autographic multiplicity, which will enable
all the world to see this pictorial pageant
of " Britain's Efforts and Ideals"—all the
world, that is to say, of allied sympathies
and fair-minded neutrality, which is all that
matters in these days of strife. In fact these
exemplary lithographic prints will bear the
British artist's message of confidence and
aspiration, with the authentic touch of his hand,
to all the friendly lands ; for somewhere in each
the interesting exhibition at the Fine Art
Society's Galleries will presently be identically
repeated.
First for " Britain's Ideals." In Defence
against Aggression—France and England, 1914,
Mr. Ernest Jackson shows us two gracious ladies:
'* THE END OF WAR '
BY WILLIAM NICHOLSON
103
THE GREAT WAR: BRITAIN'S
EFFORTS AND IDEALS DEPICTED
BY BRITISH ARTISTS
THE artists of the Allied nations are
playing, their part bravely in the
war, and the British artists as heroi-
cally as any. From the beginning
they have been fighting and giving their lives
freely, and as freely they have given their art
-to picturing incidentally the national share in
the titanic struggle, or expressing in telling
cartoon its tragic ironies or its spiritual signifi-
cance. For the first time in history too they
have convinced a British Government of the
importance of pictorial impressions, artistically
recorded amid the actualities of war, as an
historical factor and a patriotic inspiration for
future generations. Now we have the artists
organizing themselves for a concerted adventure
in patriotic expression.
Eighteen British artists of distinction have
united to depict the practical aspect of Britain's
physical and material efforts towards winning
the war, and to interpret in allegorical design
the ideals for which she is fighting and sacri-
ficing. And happily they have chosen for their
medium lithography, a beautifully expressive
method, with the virtues of which most of
them had already shown themselves familiar,
and they have chosen it for their present
emprise chiefly because of its capacity for
autographic multiplicity, which will enable
all the world to see this pictorial pageant
of " Britain's Efforts and Ideals"—all the
world, that is to say, of allied sympathies
and fair-minded neutrality, which is all that
matters in these days of strife. In fact these
exemplary lithographic prints will bear the
British artist's message of confidence and
aspiration, with the authentic touch of his hand,
to all the friendly lands ; for somewhere in each
the interesting exhibition at the Fine Art
Society's Galleries will presently be identically
repeated.
First for " Britain's Ideals." In Defence
against Aggression—France and England, 1914,
Mr. Ernest Jackson shows us two gracious ladies:
'* THE END OF WAR '
BY WILLIAM NICHOLSON
103