tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post8790218341277304712..comments2024-03-29T06:42:20.796-07:00Comments on Roads to the Great War: Four from the Imperial War Museum's Art Collectionsnielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631473280484584330noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-77131778394299550682021-10-30T15:08:05.978-07:002021-10-30T15:08:05.978-07:00The Clausen painting is not a battle-field scene. ...The Clausen painting is not a battle-field scene. It is a Home-front scene. There should not be any rendition of the war-time landscape. The emotional suffering of a young girl devastated by the loss of her fiance is conveyed very powerfully in this painting. #visualizepeacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02786144061040850253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-45915385647930126622021-10-27T15:17:52.919-07:002021-10-27T15:17:52.919-07:00Clausen's painting has always struck me as str...Clausen's painting has always struck me as strangely emotionless. The landscape is bare rather than bleak, the crouching nude quite divorced from the scene - almost like a paste-on from some other drawing. And there is no sense of a post-war (or war-time) landscape - oh for a scrap of barbed wire, or the cross slightly ravaged, or at least atilt. Am I an insensitive brute?Brian Culrosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11390126357296486971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-85578865543158222292021-10-27T14:42:54.610-07:002021-10-27T14:42:54.610-07:00Very moving and effective. They say a great deal.Very moving and effective. They say a great deal.David Beernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-22299340788876382132021-10-27T10:19:29.084-07:002021-10-27T10:19:29.084-07:00Four excellent, powerful images.Four excellent, powerful images.Bryan Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05937099144329508708noreply@blogger.com