Self Portrait by C.R.W Nevinson.

Posts about La Mitrailleuse by Nevinson written by jonathan5485. In La Mitrailleuse, Nevinson certainly captures the idea of the body being as one with the machine.
He is often referred to by his initials C. R. W. Nevinson, and was also known as Richard.

In an article in The Burlington Magazine in 1916, artist Walter Sickert called the work "the most authoritative and concentrated utterance on the war in the history of painting". As an advocate of the Futurist movement who declared that, “We will glorify war —the world’s only hygiene —militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman.
The newspapers and television are awash with articles and documentaries with regards the First World War and so, over the next two blogs, I thought I would take this opportunity to look at one of the best known British war artist, many of whose paintings featured the Great War. But his experience as an ambulance driver in the First World War changed his view. Artwork page for ‘La Mitrailleuse’, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, 1915 Nevinson aligned himself with the Italian futurists who celebrated and embraced the violence and mechanised speed of the modern age. La Mitrailleuse is a painting by British Futurist artist Christopher Nevinson, made in 1915 while he was on honeymoon leave from service as an ambulance driver with the RAMC on the Western Front in the First World War. Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (13 August 1889 – 7 October 1946) was an English figure and landscape painter, etcher and lithographer, who was one of the most famous war artists of World War I. Write on Art: 'La Mitrailleuse' by C. R. W. Nevinson Posted 10 Jul 2019, by Jack Harrison This essay was written for the 2019 Write on Art prize, winning first place in the Year 10 & 11 category.