MERLIN 27
DAZZLE SHIP - LIVERPOOL
Pilot ship 'Edmund Gardner' owned by Merseyside Maritime Museum has been repainted as a WW1 'Dazzle Ship' by artist Carlos Cruz Diaz. Dazzle Ships were painted in bright colours in a patchwork of interlocking shapes to disguise their outline and direction of travel from U boats. Invented by artist Norman Wilkinson dazzle painting owed much to Cubist art. Liverpool 13/6/2014
DAZZLE SHIP - LIVERPOOL
Pilot ship 'Edmund Gardner' owned by Merseyside Maritime Museum has been repainted as a WW1 'Dazzle Ship' by artist Carlos Cruz Diaz. Dazzle Ships were painted in bright colours in a patchwork of interlocking shapes to disguise their outline and direction of travel from U boats. Invented by artist Norman Wilkinson dazzle painting owed much to Cubist art. Liverpool 13/6/2014