Comparison Of Rupert Brooke And William Barnes Wollen

In the early 1900s the modernist believed that there art should show the true nature of society and the world that the Victorian society never allowed anyone to see. The extreme advancement of technology and medical science that was created during the industrial revolution sent the world into a massive shift with people going from having strict religious views, along with being taught how to act and dress. To having varying religious views and dressing and acting in ways that have never been seen before with new hairstyles and clothing that were considered to be offensive and horrible. This amount of change in such a short period of time considering that humans aren't inherently good at handling change lead to that feeling of being alone in
Along with the invention of new vaccines and machines such as the X-ray that made it possible to see inside the human body for the first time without having to cut someone open. These new inventions lead to a new scale of death and destruction in which no one had ever seen before,over 37 million people died in world war 1 more than any other war before that time period. For this assignment I have chosen the two artists Rupert Brooke and William Barnes Wollen. These two artists made it a point to show the true scene of what World War one looked like and felt like to the soldiers who were fighting. These artists main goal was to show the American public the true terror of what war is really like so if we came to this point again in history that we would make it a goal to avoid a situation like
This painting is one large image of a battle involving one of the newest strategies called trench warfare. What we are able to see in the main focus of the image is what appears to be a battalion of Canadian soldiers holding refuge in a man made trench returning fire to an oncoming charge of German soldiers. As we break down the image further we are able to pick out some more detail about the image. One small detail that could easily be missed is when you look the condition of the trench and how muddy and disgusting the trench is with ammo and food packaging just laying around along with the dead bodies of the fallen soldiers that have been previously killed in battle. When I see these details I think that William Barnes Wollen is trying to send a message to the viewer showing them that war isn't this as kind and peaceful that some people make it out to be. Its actual what some people would describe as a fourm of “Hell on Earth”. So when people see these dead bodies and the emotions that some of the soldiers feel like the one in the middle of the painting that is standing up trying to scream information that he may be collecting to his commander have in the painting it gives people just a slight glimpse of what the feeling could be like when you know that you're probably not going to survive and ever see society again. I believe that William Barnes Wollen captures the