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Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it ...
Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 304.8 cm × 243.8 cm (120.0 in × 96.0 in) Location. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. 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.
Occupation. Artist. Norman Wilkinson CBE RI (24 November 1878 – 30 May 1971) was a British artist who usually worked in oils, watercolours and drypoint. He was primarily a marine painter, but also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime camoufleur. Wilkinson invented dazzle painting to protect merchant shipping during the First World War.
Edward Alexander Wadsworth ARA (19 October 1889 – 21 June 1949) was a British artist initially associated with the Vorticism movement. In the First World War he was part of a team involved in the transfer of dazzle camouflage designs to ships for the Royal Navy. After the war his maritime landscapes and still-life compositions using tempera ...
Nationality. English-born Canadian. Known for. Painter. Awards. Order of Canada. Arthur Lismer, CC RCA LL.D. (27 June 1885 – 23 March 1969) was an English-Canadian painter, member of the Group of Seven and educator. He is known primarily as a landscape painter and for his paintings of ships in dazzle camouflage.
Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
Frederick J. Brown (February 6, 1945 [1] – May 5, 2012) was a New York City based visual artist originally from Chicago. [2] [3] His style ranges from abstract expressionism to figurative. [4] His art work was influenced by historical, religious, [5] narrative and urban themes. He is noted for his extensive portrait series of jazz and blues ...
Topiary Park is a 9.2-acre (3.7 ha) public park and garden in Columbus, Ohio 's Discovery District. The park's topiary garden, officially the Topiary Garden at Old Deaf School Park, is designed to depict figures from Georges Seurat 's 1884 painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. It is the only park based entirely on a ...