1915
oil
canvas
From the collection of National Gallery
La Mitrailleuse is a 1915 oil by C. R. W. Nevinson, a Vorticism work, depicting World War I, held at National Gallery.
La Mitrailleuse is a painting by C. R. W. Nevinson. It's an oil paint work from 1915. The painting was made while Nevinson was on leave from his service as an ambulance driver. This was during World War I, which is a subject of the painting. To learn more about the artist's style and other works, look up the artist: C. R. W. Nevinson.
La Mitrailleuse is an oil on canvas painting by British artist C. R. W. Nevinson, from 1915. It was made while he was on honeymoon leave from service as an ambulance driver with the RAMC on the Western Front during the First World War. It is held at the Tate Britain, in London.
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Mitrailleuse is the French word for machine gun, and originated from the mid-19th century French volley gun, the mitrailleuse. The painting shows three soldiers in the trenches wearing metal Adrian helmets, one firing a machine gun. A fourth soldier lies dead beside them. Around them are wooden beams and barbed wire. The subjects are abstracted into angular geometric blocks of colour, becoming dehumanised components in a machine of death. Nevinson later wrote: "To me the soldier going to be dominated by the machine ... I was the first man to express this feeling on canvas." In an article…
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Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (13 August 1889 – 7 October 1946) was an English figure and landscape painter, etcher and lithographer, who was one of the most famous war artists of the First World War.
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