Trench

One of Dix’s controversial work which going to be analysed in this essay is “Trench” (fig.1). The medium was oil on canvas, with unknown location, since the works was seized during Nazi regime. This painting made from 1920 in Dresden and finished in 1923 where has moved to Dusseldorf, during the Weimar Republic. “Trench” portrayed war that he experienced. The annual exhibition of this work was in Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne in December 1923. At that time, there were no visual arts that…

the Manstein Plan included a tactic called Blitzkrieg and popular during World War Two, Trench Warfare and the Schlieffen Plan were important strategies in World War One. These strategies were a major importance to the early victories in their respective wars. Trench warfare created a stalemate which would cause the war to last four years. The most wide-known strategy in World War One was trench warfare. Trench warfare used systems of trenches to protect armies against attacks from opposite…

Many consider more abstract art and realism to be very distinct and separate styles of. Artists that painted in more abstract forms wished to display their emotions and views on the world, in contrast to the Realists who displayed the physical world around them and everyday events as they were. What they achieve however, is not so different. Realism aids us in understanding what the world was truly like, and not only what those in charge thought, lived or wanted others to think and live.…

Trench Mouth Trench mouth is a sudden (acute) infection that affects the gum tissue between your teeth (gingivitis). This infection quickly kills the gum tissue and causes painful sores (ulceration). Trench mouth causes very bad gum pain, very bad breath, and bleeding gums. The infection is not passed from person to person. CAUSES The mouth normally contains a balance of all the germs growing in it. An unhealthy mouth environment allows these bacteria to grow out of control, which upsets the…

US Army’s Combat Food C-ration Previous The "Iron Ration", written between 1907 and 22, is the first US combat food. Cake 3 ounces (85g) 3, sweet chocolate bar 1 ounce (28g) 3 pieces, salt and pepper 1 wrapped pack in tin cans. In terms of composition and quantity, it is closer to the nature of emergency food when it is difficult to supply it, rather than modern field food. It focuses on the characteristics of emergency food that is very compact and later becomes the origin of the D-Ration. In…

World War I: The Graveyard for People and Values The Great War was a dreadful experience for many people that put Victorian values six feet under. The war experience exploded the generation’s faith in cultural and social institutions of the 19th century. I will demonstrate how World War I poems stretched beyond the trenches into the souls and bones of the Europeans and their civilizations. This experience will directly reflect T.S. Eliot’s postwar epic poem, “Wasteland” that showed the…

unsuccessful trench warfare and stalemates are. Slow fighting methods and poor living conditions within the trenches made multiple attempts by the Anzacs to end stalemates unsuccessful during the Gallipoli campaign. Trench warfare meant an adjustment was needed in the way troops fought, also it caused the troops to experience poor living conditions and exposure to disease. Multiple attempts to compromise the stalemate meant high casualties due to the lengthy delays. Overall, this shows that…

and trench warfare were heavily rooted in World War I. Total war was the complete mobilization of resources and people. This meant that many military powers found quick and effective ways to move their supplies and men from place to place. Russia mobilized too quickly, causing a lack of resources and supplies. No one expected the war to last as long as it did. This combined with the rapid and ill-prepared mobilization led to Russia’s ultimate demise and exit from the war. While trench…

and mentally exhausted from the lack of rest received . Amongst him lay distraught battle hardened men whom “kill or be killed” was their only motto. The sound of gunfire going from trench to trench made him shiver. men lined in the tight and compacted trench where they would await their destiny which lay over the trench. The mud grabbed hold of Tom’s feet and sucked him deeper into the mud. he was well built structure with strong broad shoulders, a tank on two legs. the rain dropped lazy and…

Whether you were in a trench, getting trench foot, or on the battlefield trying to defend against fast moving tanks and artillery, fighting in either World War was not a pleasant experience. In the World Wars, enemies used many different tactics to break each other, with the goal of winning in mind. World War I consisted of a long, drawn out trench war, with many battles ending in stalemate, up until the Germans ran out of morale to continue fighting the war, and surrendered. In World War II,…