Talk:Edward Wadsworth

Dazzle camouflage
Surely it has been known for years that Wadsworth did not design dazzle camouflage but was employed to transfer the designs the ships? The inventor/designer was a fairly traditional marine painter named Norman Wilkinson. Paul Atterbury, who first published this information, argued that therefore dazzle camouflage had no connection with Vorticism. Although Wadsworth should not therefore be credited as a designer, Atterbury went too far in denying a connection with Vorticism. Wilkinson worked for the London Illustrated News, and was well-aware of the artistic developments in London. He would have seen plenty of Vorticist works. He was also involved in the Cabaret Theatre Club in 1912, and his name appears on the programme. Future-Vorticist Wyndham Lewis supplied designs and paintings for the club, so Wilkinson was clearly au fait with London's bohemia and avant-garde. Dazzle camouflage does originate in Vorticism (a style of geometric painting in bold colours exploiting perceptual disorientation and ambiguity) – but not directly through Wadsworth, whose involvement seems to be a coincidence. See Atterbury, 'Dazzle Painting in the First World War', 'The Antique Collector vol. 24, no. 4 (1975), pp. 25-29. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.148.188.227 (talk) 09:15, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

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