Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Camouflage Artist | Mary (Mittie) Taylor Brush

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George de Forest Brush, Mrs. Brush , c1888 Above George de Forest Brush and Mary Taylor Whelpley eloped (to the dismay of her parents) ...
Friday, August 5, 2016

Theatrical Stage Lighting and WWI Camouflage

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Abbott H. Thayer's stage lighting effects: Before and After Above In earlier posts, we've featured American artist Abbott H. Tha...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Roland Penrose | Cubism, Illusion and Camouflage

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Roger Penrose, Impossible Triangle Above The uncle of British mathematician Roger Penrose was the surrealist artist and art collect...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Dazzle | Wilkinson, Kerr and Archibald Phillips

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Above This is the wonderful cover of the 4th issue of a UK publication called Stages , an online journal produced in connection with the ...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Roster of World War I British Ship Camouflage Artists

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Dazzle-painted ship models being tested (c1919) Above This historic photograph was presumably taken in London at the Royal Academy of A...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Camouflaged Hollywood Special Effects WWI

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Above In accounts of World War I US Army camouflage, most credit is given to artists, usually painters and sculptors. But in fact, re...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Dazzle Ship Camouflage Continued in WWII

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USS Vestal (1944) Above Nearly everywhere on the internet, whether in online articles or blog discussions, it is claimed over and over ...
Saturday, July 9, 2016

Hypothetical Dazzle Camouflage Schemes | Part 16

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Above Hypothetical dazzle ship camouflage schemes (2016) by Roy R. Behrens , "in the styles" of four famous artists. Can you n...

Dazzle: Disguise and Disruption in War and Art

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Above The wonderfully appropriate cover of a forthcoming book by British historian James Taylor (former curator of paintings at the Nati...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Camouflage Artist | Jean-Louis Forain

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Camouflage artist Jean-Louis Forain (left), c1914-15 Above At the beginning of World War I, Jean-Louis Forain was a well-known and imm...

More Horse Carcasses & Phony Observation Trees

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Steel-Lined Dead Tree Observation Post Above During the trench warfare of World War I, both sides of the conflict "test drove"...
Sunday, July 3, 2016

Camouflaged Ships as Deep-Sea Barbershops

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USS Siboney (c1918) in dazzle camouflage Arthur Capper , Nature, Art and Camouflage in The Topeka Capital (Topeka KS). October 21, 191...
Saturday, July 2, 2016

Inept Trompe l'Oeil Camouflage in WWI

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Camp Sherman, Chillicothe OH, building camouflage (1919) Distant view of same building (1919) Surely, some of the least persuasive ...
Friday, July 1, 2016

Protective Coloration for White Horses

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Protective coloration Above (apologies for posting this drawing again, but it is so good it deserves to be repeated) World War I-era ca...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Concealing the Land: Camouflage from Above

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Above Cover of Sonja Dümpelmann, Flights of Imagination: Aviation | Landscape | Design . Charlottesville and London: University of Virgin...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Cruise Boat Camouflage | Katy Mutton

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Above Australian artist Katy Mutton has undertaken a public art project (concurrent with the World War I Centenary), called In Plain S...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Hypothetical Dazzle Camouflage Schemes | Part 15

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Above Hypothetical dazzle ship camouflage schemes (2016) by Roy R. Behrens , "in the styles" of four famous artists. Can you n...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

La Baionnette Camouflage Cover | Jacques Nam

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Cover illustration (1917), by French camoufleur Jacques Nam Above La Baionnette was a weekly French satirical magazine that was publis...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Hypothetical Dazzle Camouflage Schemes | Part 14

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Above Hypothetical dazzle ship camouflage schemes (2016) by Roy R. Behrens , "in the style" of four famous artists. Can you na...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Hypothetical Dazzle Camouflage Schemes | Part 13

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Above Hypothetical dazzle ship camouflage schemes (2016) by Roy R. Behrens , "in the style" of four famous artists. Can you na...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Camouflage Hoodies | Sinister French Artillery Robes

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early WWI French camouflage (c1914) In earlier blog entries (such as one on camouflaged robes , and a second on French camouflage and cri...