As The End Of The Year Of The 100th Anniversary Of The
Armistice Which Ended World War I Is At Hand- Some Artists Who Served And
Survived To Create “Modern” Art-Oscar, Oops, Oskar Kokorchka
Comment by Ronan Saint James
I was not centrally involved in the now four year commemoration of
the horrors of World War One but I was struck by the number of artists who served
in some capacity in the militaries of their respective countries and after
surviving the onslaught produced some very provocative works which to my mind
have to have been a reflection of the destructiveness of that war to civilization
and their psyches. What do you think?
