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dazzle ship
Dazzle painting played a vital role in the protection of British naval and trade vessels during The First World War when it was introduced in late 1914.
This dazzle camouflage was used to optically distort the appearance of British ships in order to confuse enemy submarines who were threatening to cut off Britain’s trade and supplies. The optical illusion imposed by the ‘dazzling’ was intended to make the direction the ship was travelling in difficult for enemy submarines to identify. This would in turn lead to a difficulty in calculating an accurate angle of attack.
The inventor of dazzle painting, Norman Wilkinson, employed techniques influenced by avant-garde British painters such as Wyndham Lewis and David Bomberg.
The close relationship of dazzle technology to British art extended right through its manufacture. Each British pattern was unique, and many of the designs were created by women from the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Designs were tested on wooden models, viewed through a periscope in a studio in order to assess how they would work at sea. Artist Edward Wadsworth, who supervised the application of dazzle patterning to over 2,000 ships, later made a series of paintings on the subject.
Renowned artist Carlos Cruz-Diez has worked with the idea of dazzle on this pilot ship called 'Edmund Gardner' situated in Canning Graving Dock, Liverpool.
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dazzle ship
Dazzle painting played a vital role in the protection of British naval and trade vessels during The First World War when it was introduced in late 1914.
This dazzle camouflage was used to optically distort the appearance of British ships in order to confuse enemy submarines who were threatening to cut off Britain’s trade and supplies. The optical illusion imposed by the ‘dazzling’ was intended to make the direction the ship was travelling in difficult for enemy submarines to identify. This would in turn lead to a difficulty in calculating an accurate angle of attack.
The inventor of dazzle painting, Norman Wilkinson, employed techniques influenced by avant-garde British painters such as Wyndham Lewis and David Bomberg.
The close relationship of dazzle technology to British art extended right through its manufacture. Each British pattern was unique, and many of the designs were created by women from the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Designs were tested on wooden models, viewed through a periscope in a studio in order to assess how they would work at sea. Artist Edward Wadsworth, who supervised the application of dazzle patterning to over 2,000 ships, later made a series of paintings on the subject.
Renowned artist Carlos Cruz-Diez has worked with the idea of dazzle on this pilot ship called 'Edmund Gardner' situated in Canning Graving Dock, Liverpool.
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