Source: File: Design
image for the Artists Rifles badge.jpg. [online] An original image is available
at: <http://1914centenary.com/2014/03/11/exhibition-focuses-on-artists-rifles-in-the-first-world-war/>
[Accessed: 10 January 2016]
While the path
into war
Leads to
destructivity,
Any escape from
war
Can lead to
creativity.
The proof of the
pudding
Appeared in
recruiting,
Of nearly thirty
artists
To join their
named corps.
The Artists
Rifles doing
Their bit, used their talents
For field
sketching, to devise
Invaluable map
reading.
Furthermore their
abilities
Were arranged to
be shown;
To be members of
the Officer
Training Corps Exhibition.
For three weeks
only, over
A London period, between
Saturday 15
January, to end
Saturday 5
February 1916.
The corps first
muster-rolls
Had formed by Lord
Leighton
And Val Prinsep -
to use time
Between brushes and
rifles.
Reflecting the
immediacy
Of ongoing
attrition, a public
Would be able to
see black
And white images
of war.
Enameling,
etching, water
Colour and oil
paintings -
Alongside sculptured
images
Were to be on
exhibition.
In talent like
Lord Leighton,
Who had designed
the Rifles
Badge - Although
all images
Were subjected to
censors.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916. Soldier
Artists' Exhibition. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 10 January 1916. P.4. Col.5. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12083285/Daily-Telegraph-January-10-1916.html
[Accessed: 10 January 2016].
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 10 January 2016).
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