...a composition. This brick technique is often used by David Hockney to form huge and impressive paintings. He has done it with oil paintings before. The first thing that strikes the viewer is the unusual use of colours by the artist. They are, as often in his work, extremely vivid and vibrant....

...that uses two-dimensional geometric shapes to depict three-dimensional organic forms; a style of painting created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the early 20th century whereby the artist breaks down the natural forms of the subjects into geometric shapes and creates a new kind of pictorial...

War Paintings and Poems Assignment number 1 : Choose a war painting and prepare an analysis to be presented to the class (including information about the painter, situation in historic context  and your own interpretation of the painting) - to be handed in in written version and audio version for...

Click on the links to access the following paintings : Paul Nash, Totes Meer, 1941 Paul Nash, We are making a new world, 1918 Evelyn Dunbar, The Queue at the Fish Shop, 1944 CRW Nevinson, Taube, 1916 Charles Ernest Butler, Blood and Iron, 1916 Other : Former article on war painting and poetry...