Four Art Pieces

This painting, called The Battle Lines are drawn, was done by Fortunino Matania. It is a painting of a wounded man, and a fellow soldier comforting him. The painting has a caption that reads, "If you get through...tell my mother...". In war, many soldiers got injured and died. This painting shows how the men fighting beside them become like family and help them in any way that they can. If they don't make it, they try their hardest to follow through with what their lost soldiers wanted them to do.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-561310/The-battle-lines-drawn.html
This beautiful painting, called Scratch One Betty, was done by Marc Stewart. This is a fight between two planes in the sky, known as "dogfights". World War I was the first time airplanes were used in a combat role. At first they were only used to drop bombs and for spying. Soon though, they were used to fight while armed with machine guns, bombs, and canons.




http://fineartamerica.com/featured/scratch-one-betty-marc-stewart.html
This painting, called Trench Warfare, was painted by Andrew Gillette. In World War I trench warfare was used. Trench warfare is when armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. The soldiers even lived in the horrible trenches. It was damp, cold, infested with rats, and sleep was almost impossible. The space between the trenches was known as "No man's land" because if they left their trenches for anything, they were met with rounds of machine-gun fire.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/trench-warfare-andrew-gillette.html
This painting, called The Trenches, was done by Otto Dix. I believe that this painting shows what it was like through the soldiers eyes. The painting is dark and gloomy, which shows the sadness of the soldiers. Many soldiers went mental because of what they saw in war. The painting shows what they did to the towns and villages. The town was completely destroyed. You can also see the piles of dead bodies left in the towns. The painting shows how World War I was a very dark and bloody war.





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Introduction

My Blog is on Chapter 13, World War I. World War I was a major conflict fought in Europe and around the world from June 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918. The war was fought by two main powers, the allied powers and the central powers. The allied powers consisted of Great Britain, France, Russia, and Italy. The Central powers consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. It all began on June 28, 1914 when Austrian-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian activist, Gavrillo Princip. They declared war on Serbia on July 28, 1914. Russia supported Serbia, so Germany declared war on Russia. France and Britain then declared war on Germany. On November 11, 1918, Germany signed an Armistice. Each of the defeated nations signed a treaty, most important The Treaty of Versailles, which was signed with Germany. Across Europe, 55 troops had been mobilised, over 8 million had died, and over 29 million were injured. Through this blog, i hope to educate people on the war, and things that were happening at the time of the war.