In Air and Fire : War Artists, The Battle of Britain and the Blitz - Dame Laura Knight RA

Описание: In our latest video for our London exhibition ‘In Air and Fire: War Artists, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz’, art historian and novelist Dr Alicia Foster (Warpaint, 2013) discusses the work of eminent painter Dame Laura Knight RA, one of few female Official War Artists commissioned through Sir Kenneth Clark’s War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC).

Alicia describes Knight’s short-term commissions through the WAAC, how she asserted rights to fair payment for women artists, and her approach to representing a broad range of war subjects, some untypical for women artists (whose focus was largely women’s work on the Home Front).

Featuring drawings of RAF Balloon Command and RAF Mildenhall’s Stirling bomber crew. Interview by Curator Julia Beaumont-Jones.

To see works featured in the exhibition why not consult our Collections Online here: https://collections.rafmuseum.org.uk/

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