Postage stamp. Great Britain. Queen Elizabeth II. 2014. The First World War 1914 Souvenirs. A Star Shell by CRW Nevinson.
Image details
Contributor:
Stan Pritchard / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
J252E2File size:
19.6 MB (782.8 KB Compressed download)Releases:
Model - no | Property - noDo I need a release?Dimensions:
2600 x 2641 px | 22 x 22.4 cm | 8.7 x 8.8 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
25 April 2017More information:
The First World War 1914 centenary stamps represent the six series themes of Poppy, Poetry, Portraits, War Art, Memorials and Remembrance and Artefacts. The cameo head of The Queen by David Gentleman appears in Royal Mail Red, echoing the colour of poppies, the most poignant symbol of war and remembrance. Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson was born in London in 1889. A leading exponent of Futurism, he went to France and Flanders as a Red Cross orderly, later joining the Royal Army Medical Corps. After being invalided out of the Army, he secured a commission as an official war artist. One of Nevinson’s official works, Paths of Glory, showing two dead British soldiers lying amid mud and barbed wire, was controversially censored. In A Star Shell, Nevinson depicts the weird, unearthly light of an illuminating artillery flare. The shell’s harsh glow reveals a strange landscape of broken ground and barbed wire and captures the disorienting alien nature of the battlefield.