A Battery Shelled
Wyndham Lewis · 1919
Why it's great
Wyndham Lewis shows an artillery position under fire in sharp, blocky shapes, like a machine of broken glass. He had served as a gunner himself before becoming an official war artist, and he painted this in 1919.
🏛️ Part of history
World War I (1914–1918) — Wyndham Lewis shows an artillery position under fire in sharp, blocky shapes, like a machine of broken glass.
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Wyndham Lewis was a painter and writer, born in 1882 on a yacht off the coast of Nova Scotia. He lived mostly in London, where he led Vorticism, a British avant-garde movement, and served as an artillery officer and official war artist in World War I. He died in London in 1957.
