Brand New!! Who Painted This? #42

Who painted this? #42

I've had to conform the wikimedia common version of this icon every bit it glares at you lot - it's terribly over-saturated! I've been using a yoke of other images of it inwards a recent exhibition every bit a reference indicate - as well as that's every bit much every bit a clue every bit you're getting for now!

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Who Painted This #41 - The Answer

By Richard Ernst Eurich (RA) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Title of the artwork: Preparations for D-day
Name of the creative individual who created this artwork: Richard Eurich RA
Date it was created: 1944
Media used: crude oil on canvas
Where it lives now: Imperial War Museum

This icon relates to Richard Ernst Eurich's operate every bit a state of war artist. He worked for the War Artists Advisory Committee - for a issue of years during the Second World War. This has been ready on the instigation of Sir Kenneth Clark, thence Director of the National Gallery (Later known every bit "Lord Clark of Civilisation" next the BBC programme of the same name')

The aims were:

to heighten morale yesteryear having fine art exhibitions
to hit artwork for propaganda
to proceed artists gainfully employed inwards the promise this mightiness cut back the numbers killed (the First World War saw the expiry of a lot of writers as well as artists)

At the terminate of the war, the collection consisted of 5,570 works, over one-half of which are held yesteryear IWM.

David Teter flora the epitome on the Google Art Project which gives the best stance of it (ie you lot tin flame zoom in). This is what the site says well-nigh the painting.

Eurich’s enigmatic composite icon of province as well as naval forces massing off the South Coast earlier D-Day gives an impression of brooding calm earlier the storm.The night belt of trees across the centre of the icon obscures the transition from province to sea. The roads terminate inwards barriers of smoke or barbed wire as well as the solely agency frontward is into the unknown, through the huge jaw-like hold-doors of the fundamental ship. Camouflage netting, smoke screening as well as the camouflaged transportation all contribute to the feel of secrecy as well as hidden strength conveyed yesteryear the painting.Eurich was a marine painter living close Southampton as well as was really familiar alongside this role of the coast, overlooking the Isle of Wight. He was a salaried state of war creative individual alongside an honorary commission of Captain inwards the Royal Marines as well as would remove maintain been able to pigment from his ain observations. His wartime agency has been compared to the sixteenth century Flemish painter Pieter Breughel whose operate shows a similar attending to distant special as well as purposeful activities. Indeed, the gaping ship’s doors seem to echo Breughel’s Mouth of Hell, making a visual equation betwixt state of war as well as hell which agrees alongside Eurich’s Quaker background as well as beliefs.

Here are around to a greater extent than of his paintings inwards the Imperial War Museum

Interestingly - as well as this is what I was referencing when I said around websites mightiness survive lisleading - he isn't on whatsoever of the lists of state of war artists as well as yet has clearly been one. See

Wikipedia - listing of British Official War Artists
The National Archives - War Artists

The storey behind how this icon was chosen is that I've had an fine art postcard of one a even thence life icon yesteryear him for a really long time. I wanted to characteristic that - but couldn't observe it located anywhere online! So thence I started looking at what else he had painted - as well as got a large surprise!

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Who painted this #41? Congratulations to Roger Brown (Art Of The Wild yesteryear Roger Brown)
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