PAINTING THE GREAT WAR
“THINGS CHANGED IN 1916 WHEN THE UNITED KINGDOM, CANADA AND AUSTRALIA ESTABLISHED OFFICIAL WAR ART SCHEMES TO CREATE A PAINTED RECORD OF THE GREAT WAR”
For centuries art has captured the chaos and tragedy of warfare, and this is no less true of the horrors experienced during WWI. Lord Kitchener’s first instinct was to censor, which is why there are so few contemporary images of the Gallipoli campaign. But things changed in 1916 when the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia
