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Englische Graphik (1923).<\/em><\/p>\n More art that caught my attention this week. Edward Wadsworth (1889\u20131949) is one of those artists with a single work that turns up regularly in social media, prompting a “Wow!” response before everyone moves onto something else. Dazzle Ships in Dry Dock at Liverpool<\/em><\/a> (1919) is the Wadsworth that everyone likes, a painting that combines the artist’s persistent theme of ships and shipping with his experience as a member of the Vorticists, and a designer of “dazzle” camouflage for marine vessels. The dazzle fad didn’t last very long, and was of doubtful utility in any case, but it did give us many pictures of destroyers and batteships painted like floating masses of abstract art<\/a>.<\/p>\n Platelayers’ Sheds (1914\/1918).<\/em><\/p>\n Wadsworth’s prints, which include a few dazzle ships, are the kind of bold black-and-white art I always enjoy seeing, pictures that push their representations to the edge of abstraction. The woodcuts differ so much from his later paintings\u2014quasi-Surrealist accumulations of tidal flotsam and other objects arranged against views of the seashore\u2014they might be the work of a different artist altogether.<\/p>\n Liverpool Shipping (1918).<\/em><\/p>\n Dock Scene (c.1918).<\/em><\/p>\n Townscape (1920).<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tugs (1918).<\/em><\/p>\n Minesweepers in Port (1918).<\/em><\/p>\n SS Jerseymoor (1918).<\/em><\/p>\n Yorkshire (1920, dated 1921).<\/em><\/p>\n Newcastle (1913).<\/em><\/p>\n Blast Furnaces (1919).<\/em><\/p>\n Harbour of Flushing (1914).<\/em><\/p>\n Dazzle Ship in Dry Dock (1918).<\/em><\/p>\n Camouflaged Ship in D<\/em>ry Dock (1918).<\/em><\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } Englische Graphik (1923). More art that caught my attention this week. Edward Wadsworth (1889\u20131949) is one of those artists with a single work that turns up regularly in social media, prompting a “Wow!” response before everyone moves onto something else. Dazzle Ships in Dry Dock at Liverpool (1919) is the Wadsworth that everyone likes, a … Continue reading “Edward Wadsworth woodcuts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Edward Wadsworth woodcuts","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,4],"tags":[14007],"class_list":["post-28142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-design","tag-edward-wadsworth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7jU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"wadsworth01.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Dazzle-ships_in_Drydock_at_Liverpool.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 F\u00e9lix Vallotton woodcuts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"