Friday, 1 May 2015

To tell you the truth, I wasn't really excited about the Imperial War Museum. Because i was kinda tired but when we entered it, it was all worth it. The works I viewed varied greatly in the opinion of war, some portrayed war as it's truly is horrifying, evil and bloodshed .Also how evil man is. Some also shows how war is a necessary evil for mankind and how the after math brings freedom and peace. It also shows how it can be used to protect the weak and oppressed. It is also a tool for both destruction and improvement. 

This a drawing I made of one of the art works, it is a series of etchings. this one is called Death ponders by Percy Delf Smith



These are the art works i was able to take pictures of. I took pictures because no one told me it wasn't allowed and also i did not see any signs on the walls.

Nonne Bosschen - Defeat of the Prussian Guard Ypres 1914 (1915) 
William Barnes Wollen, oil on canvas






The Integrity of Belgium, Walter Sickert - Oil on canvas





 The NCO Pilot, RFC (Flight Sergeant W. G. Bennett)
Lt R T C Holdge, MC
Lt A P F Rhys Davids, DSO, MC
William Orpen (1917) oil on canvas






Death Waits, Death awed, Death Marches, Death ponders, Death refuses;Death forbids, 
The dance of Death,  Death intoxicated
 Percy Delf Smith (1919)
Drypoint etchings

Death intoxicated

The dance of Death

Death refuses;Death forbids

Death ponders

Death Marches


Death awed


Death Waits



















TO THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER IN FRANCE (1921 - 1928)
WILLIAM ORPEN, OIL ON CANVAS





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