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#0128
The Great IVar: Britain s Efforts and Ideals
strength, of a gigantic sculptured head of sad,
heroic mien against a background of fertile land
stretching away to the mountains, while the
picturesquely clad people advance to greet
their king.
The End, of War is Mr. William Nicholson's
theme, and he signifies it in vigorous design of
telling simplicity, with a British soldier striking
the final blow that is to secure for ever the closed
door which shuts in the fiend of war, whose recent
presence is shown in ruin and blood-stains.
Next, The Reign of Justice, and here Mr. E. J.
Sullivan pictures Justice, not as a figure of stern
aspect, but as a gracious young woman attrac-
tively garbed, with obviously nothing up her
dainty open sleeves, lifting the scales to the
equal vision of all the races, prominent among
them England as an upright scarlet-robed judge,
while at her feet, happy and unconcerned, play
two infants personifying the Future. The
Triumph of Democracy, as Mr. William Rothen-
stein interprets it characteristically, is illus-
trated by one British soldier handcuffing the
bowed, cloaked figure of tyrant Imperialism,
while another hands the hope of the Future, in
the form of a bouncing baby with hair suggestive
of the rising sun, to the yearning ready arms of
Democracy and Labour. The Rebirth of the Arts
follows naturally, and in this that poetic artist
Mr. Charles Shannon has found an inspiring
theme for a very beautiful design, which has led
him triumphantly back to his old love of litho-
graphy. The rainbow appears over the desola-
tion and devastation of the war, and the figure
of Artistic Beauty rises with uplifted arms, hold-
ing a sprig of bay-leaves. From ruin, death,
and misery too, Mr. Augustus John's Dawn, a
figure of most expressive significance, turns her
yearning, eager gaze toward the sunrise, with
gaunt Yesterday behind her; at her feet a
little child builds with stones from a ruin, and
a corpse is carried to the field of the dead where
the little crosses grow.
In illustrating " Britain's Efforts," pictorial
"MAKING GUNS: THE RADIAL CRANE "
112
BY GEORGE CLAUSEN, R.A.
strength, of a gigantic sculptured head of sad,
heroic mien against a background of fertile land
stretching away to the mountains, while the
picturesquely clad people advance to greet
their king.
The End, of War is Mr. William Nicholson's
theme, and he signifies it in vigorous design of
telling simplicity, with a British soldier striking
the final blow that is to secure for ever the closed
door which shuts in the fiend of war, whose recent
presence is shown in ruin and blood-stains.
Next, The Reign of Justice, and here Mr. E. J.
Sullivan pictures Justice, not as a figure of stern
aspect, but as a gracious young woman attrac-
tively garbed, with obviously nothing up her
dainty open sleeves, lifting the scales to the
equal vision of all the races, prominent among
them England as an upright scarlet-robed judge,
while at her feet, happy and unconcerned, play
two infants personifying the Future. The
Triumph of Democracy, as Mr. William Rothen-
stein interprets it characteristically, is illus-
trated by one British soldier handcuffing the
bowed, cloaked figure of tyrant Imperialism,
while another hands the hope of the Future, in
the form of a bouncing baby with hair suggestive
of the rising sun, to the yearning ready arms of
Democracy and Labour. The Rebirth of the Arts
follows naturally, and in this that poetic artist
Mr. Charles Shannon has found an inspiring
theme for a very beautiful design, which has led
him triumphantly back to his old love of litho-
graphy. The rainbow appears over the desola-
tion and devastation of the war, and the figure
of Artistic Beauty rises with uplifted arms, hold-
ing a sprig of bay-leaves. From ruin, death,
and misery too, Mr. Augustus John's Dawn, a
figure of most expressive significance, turns her
yearning, eager gaze toward the sunrise, with
gaunt Yesterday behind her; at her feet a
little child builds with stones from a ruin, and
a corpse is carried to the field of the dead where
the little crosses grow.
In illustrating " Britain's Efforts," pictorial
"MAKING GUNS: THE RADIAL CRANE "
112
BY GEORGE CLAUSEN, R.A.