An Artist Before And After The War

I would say that La Mitrailleuse is Futurist, but also, in a way, realist. The men were becoming machines. Not physically, but mentally.

its interesting how his view of the world changed after witnessing the war first hand, from the mechanical men it feels like his understanding of what war was like that of someone who had just seen a war movie a very surface level view of what war was resulting in a painting that feels like its trying to convey a message thats inauthentic (like how a rich person would claim to understand the suffering of the poor). After witnessing the war he cant help but create something that feels more authentic, a more honest painting about the horrors of war.

War must be regarded as a natural event -Otto Dix

the background song is incredible, any info?

Lame video 🤪

It varies to be honest, when jack Kirby came back from war he co-created the fantastic four, modern Thor, the hulk, the avengers, black panther, the diver surfer and many more

Those that glorified war, never been in one.

His art depicts exactly what you see in places like verdun even to this day. The carnage is just unbelievable

Have you heard about Ed paschke? His art is very interesting

Oftentimes, the theme I find most unnerving in art is "the horrors of war." It's so personal for each artist, from soldiers to journalists to civilians caught up in the chaos. Tom Lea's are particularly frightening, and then of course the paintings and drawings of people who survived the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are effective. As are those who endured concentration and prisoner camps.
CRW Nevinson. Vann Nath. Franciscos Goya and Goitia. Otto Dix. Tom Lea. Jean Veber. Zoran Music. Vasily Vereshchagin. Felix Nussbaum. Harvey Dunn. Antoine Wiertz. David Olere. Fernando Botero. These images are all so honest.

Funnily (sadly) enough, I was gonna comment the 'ol fallout quote, but you beat me to it.

War is the only event where someone can age, both physically and mentally in just a year or two.
Yes, body deterioration due to stress indeed happen to people.

The statement 'war never changes' is utterly wrong and absurd. It has a true essence, but it's simultaneously completely misused in probably 90% of the cases it's being said.

The Romantic jingoistic image of war is shattered once you have experienced the horror. Dulce et decorum est...

bro quoted fallout no way

he said the fallout line!!!!! FALLOUT!!FALLOUT!!! IDC ABOUT WW1 FALLOUT MENTIONED!!! WAR WAR NEVER JELQING!

When I think of artists and how the war changed them, I think of Jacob Epstein and his piece Rockdrill. A piece of work that celebrated man merging with technology, as it depicted a geometric figure mounted on a machinegun. Only later did the artwork transform when the artists mutilated it, leaving only the torso.

"NOOOOOO YOU CAN'T DEPICT WAR FOR WHAT IT IS"

-the army

His art may be tragic and harsh but I really like it. It’s genuine. The cold dark colors, the heaviness of the subjects and their surrounding elements in the paintings, the deep sadness. I hate war, but I’ve always had an admiration for the men (and women) who were brave and only wanted to protect their people and nations. I understand war, only as a last resort. It’s ugly and I don’t condone it, but sometimes you don’t have a choice. That is the raw reality of life.

I think the dead soldiers are made to look like they blend into the rest of the painting, I think maybe this is to symbolize that they have returned to earth

aint no way this man quoted fallout

we can sit here and say "war bad" over and over again but at the end of the day someone had to stop the Nazis. Also yes I know this is about world war 1 but to say all war is bad would be to include world war 2 and personally I don't think Hitler would have stopped if we just told him war is bad and we shouldn't do it.

What is the name of the music at the start?

I hoped that for one time there will be a video without words, not cheving up the obvious and unimportant, for me just to glaze into a story through the art. But welp. As it is the custom. Pour some shit into my ears

Saying war never changes is like telling Sunzu to shut up, war is like water always changing never taking shape and always destroying everything in its path. Ww1 brought the tank changing war forever, 2 brought the atom bomb changing war forever, 3 brought the destruction of man changing war forever

As an artist living in a country at war, I can say that I understand him like no one else. At the beginning of the war you have the enthusiasm to act, but when it drags on for years you begin to see all the ugliness of war. Every day more and more, and nothing motivates you anymore

great video but you should be crediting the artist whose music you're using

bro got me of guard at the end

didnt think id hear a fallout reference here lol

War is Eternal and evet changing

'War, war never changes. But men do.'

That should be inverted. You're looking at the product of the single largest change in military and wartime technology and doctrine. In WW1 EVERYTHING changed.
However, men never stopped killing. Wars were still fought for domination of others, senseless in the grander scope of things. War changes. In fact, nothing changes as much as war.

senseless

Brother you cant say the internets popular saying when its the fucking FALLOUT VIDEO GAME quote 🙄

Question; what is the background music near the end?

“War, war never changes, but men do”

To that I say. War, war never changes because men don’t.

Respectfully, he gave those Brits CAKE! sheesh

Es ce que tu es québécois? Ton accent me dit quelque chose, on se reconnais tous en tant que frère québécois

Im pretty sure this guy is Québécois
Great video btw

War never changes, and war never changes from being terrible for all those it touches. It's been a literary and art theme for well over a thousand years yet it still hasn't sounded its point in the minds of most.

Seeing Nevinson's paintings of war reminds me of the quote my paternal grandfather once said after fighting in Europe during the Second World War. He said: "War is when politicians agree to disagree". And that quote will always be kept forever in my mind.

What I find most interesting is that in the 1917 painting the only aspect telling you which tells you on which side the dead fought are the helmets.

My familiy came to Brazil to rebuild Europe was always on fire in those days Still is

Look at Ukraine & Russia gore. These paintings are realistic & disturbing

It looks exactly like something out of Ukraine.

Peace is a lie. Beneath every bitter treaty, ever unfair trade agreement, every uneasy tolerance between people, lies humanity's true nature. War and violence are the most direct displays of human nature: selfishness and superstitious ignorance. Peace, in fact, is the ugly, unsustainable state. It's a veneer of 'civility' lying on the rot beneath.

It is war - and WW1 was a far more brutal war than previous wars. the wars before that were not to that scale and not people just dieing without even knowing what happened. And we now have again many people that are so insane that they are trying to start wars all over the place.

Reminds me of Marious Rocle. A painter and WW-1 flyer.
Also looks like WPA style paintings from the 30’s.

Brilliant ❤

War never changes is from Fallout not a reddit meme.

I love the art that came out of the first world war, especially the expressionists.