View RSS Feed

Liverpool Picturebook

A site dedicated to photographs and History of old Liverpool

  1. Dazzle Ships - The Art Of Confusion

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Edwards View Post
    Dazzle Ships - The Art Of Confusion

    The man finally credited with the idea of dazzle painting ships during the First World War was the British artist Norman Wilkinson. Several other people claimed the idea and others contributed, including a Liverpool art dealer, Archibald Phillips who had submitted to the Admiralty, in 1915, a number of camouflage designs that included a dazzle effect. Whilst on a patrol ship in the dangerous waters around Britain in 1917, Norman Wilkinson had
    ...