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    Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, painter and printmaker, has been described as 'a vital and contentious figure, among the most important British artists of the twentieth century.' Nevinson studied art in London and then in Paris. In March he became a founding member of the London Group of artists, and in June of that year issued a Futurist manifesto, Vital English Art, with the Italian Futurist artist, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. During the First World War, Nevinson served in Flanders and France as an ambulance driver and became a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps. In March his first war paintings were shown at the London Group. In June and July of that year he exhibited as a Futurist at the Vorticist exhibition (Vorticism was a British derivation of Cubism and Futurism) and contributed to the second and last issue of the Vorticist magazine Blast. Nevinson's first solo show, primarily of war paintings, was held in September

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    C.R.W. Nevinson

    Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson () was one of the most interesting of all the British war artists. An early (lone) supporter in Britain of Marinetti&#;s Futurism, he renounced that label by , and thereafter refused to be labelled. He continued painting after the war, and was even briefly an official war artist again in His experiences in the war clearly fed into his one claim to inclusion on this website, a novel called Exodus A.D.: A Warning to Civilians (Hutchinson: London, ), written with Princess Mariya Troubetzkoy, which John Clute calls &#;a Future War tale suffused with interbellum rancour, paranoia and despair about the survival of a civilised Europe&#;.

    Richard Nevinson was the son of Henry Woodd Nevinson (not a typo) – journalist, radical campaigner, and writer – and Margaret Wynne Nevinson. (At the age of 77, in , Henry married his long-time lover Evelyn Sharp, suffragist, anti-war campaigner and writer.) Nevinson was brought up in Hampstead, and ed

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    Nevinson, C. R. W. (Christopher Richard Wynne)

    By Kevin Hogg

    C. R. W. Nevinson ()
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    Nevinson, Richard Wynne

    war artist

    Born 13 August in London, UK

    Died 07 October in London, UK


    Summary

    C. R. W. Nevinson was a British painter who served as an official war artist in World War I. His paintings depicted soldiers suffering and dying on the battlefield. His work was well-received, although some funnen it too grim and controversial for display during wartime.

    Early Career

    C. R. W. Nevinson () studied in London and Paris before World War I broke out. He identified with the futurist movement, which focused on technology, industrialization, violence, and death. At the outset of th