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Dazzle Ships is the fourth studio album by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1983. It features experimental sound collages, shortwave radio recordings and Cold War themes, and was a commercial flop but a cult classic.
Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool is a 1919 oil painting by the English artist Edward Wadsworth. It is one of Wadsworth's most famous paintings [ 1 ] and depicts a freshly painted vessel with dazzle camouflage in dry dock.
Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949) was a British artist who contributed to modern art movements such as Vorticism and surrealism. He also designed dazzle camouflage for ships in the First World War and painted abstract compositions in tempera.
Learn about the history and purpose of dazzle camouflage, a ship camouflage technique used in World War I and II. Find out how dazzle camouflage was designed to confuse the enemy by disrupting the ship's outline and making it difficult to estimate its range, speed, and heading.
The dazzle artwork ships are three vessels (joined later by a fourth), each covered with an artist-designed livery commissioned by the Imperial War Museum's 14–18 NOW project. These are:- “Everybody Razzle Dazzle”, by Peter Blake , installed on the Mersey ferryboat Snowdrop , and seen in operation on the River Mersey .
Norman Wilkinson (1878-1971) was a British artist and inventor of dazzle camouflage. He painted ships, airfields and war scenes, and received many awards and honours.
Dazzle camouflage, a family of ship camouflage; Dazzle Draw, a raster graphics editor for the Apple IIc and Apple IIe; Dazzle reflex, a type of reflex blink where the eyelids involuntarily blink in response to a sudden bright light; Dazzle, an intense and vision-impairing glare; Roanoke Dazzle, an NBA Development League team based in Roanoke ...
Abbott Handerson Thayer was an American artist, naturalist, and teacher, known for his paintings of animals, portraits, and camouflage theory. He lived in Boston, New York, Paris, and New Hampshire, and influenced American art through his students and books.