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Studio: international art — 71.1917

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#0130

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The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals

idealization has not been the aim of the artists,
but actuality of statement and suggestion. They
have set themselves to show what is really being
done in the shipyards and the munition fac-
tories, in the training centres and at the front, at
sea and in the air, in hospital and on the land;
and these vivid records and impressions suggest
something of the magnitude of Britain's material
contribution to the efforts of the Allies.

Nothing, perhaps, conveys the idea of colossal
power more impressively than the building of
a mighty ship of war, and the series of magni-
ficent drawings in which Mr. Muirhead Bone has
brought this home to us must surely rank with
the greatest achievements in graphic art. He
has long been recognized as a master-draughts-
man, but nothing short of marvellous is the
precision and vitality of statement with which
his pencil has responded to the alertness and
comprehensiveness of his vision amid these be-
wildering scenes of gigantic energy. Mr. Bone's
artistic tact has guided his pictorial conceptions
unfailingly, and these wonderful drawings, with
their vitality of impression, suggest, as no
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picturing that I have ever seen, the stupendous
energies that go to the building of our great
warships.

Another triumph of draughtsmanship is Mr.
Clausen's, in picturing, with the practised hand-
ling of the lithographic chalk, the making of big
guns. In the vast factories, among the furious
furnaces with their fountains of molten metal,
and the great steam-hammers, cranes, and
engines working their might upon the steel
monsters shaping for deadly use, he has seen
sights that have moved him uncompromisingly
to pictorial expression, in which the beauty is
of the actual truth seen with the sensitive,
selective eye of the artist.

Mr. Brangwyn, always at home with the sea,
shows us characteristically the making of a
sailor, from the day his boyish ambition is fired
by the sight of a warship till he can take his
place at the gun and be trusted as a look-out
man. With Mr. Eric Kennington we see the
young soldier at his training and in the trenches,
going " over the top," and guarding the enemy
prisoners ; and the artist knows how to give us
 
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