| AdminHistory | Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson [1889-1946] was a painter and journalist. He studied at the Slade School of Art from 1908-1912, where he began to exhibit regularly, before studying at the Academie Julian in Paris. Whilst in France Nevinson met painters such as Pablo Picasso, and became associated with the Futurists Filippo Marinetti and Gino Severini. He incorporated the aesthetics of futurism into his own work, and on his return to England 1913 became involved with Percy Wyndham Lewis and the English avant-garde movement. He published a manifesto for English Futurism, 'Vital Art England' with Marinetti in 1914, which resulted in his exclusion from Vorticism and magazine BLAST.
Nevinson joined the Friends Ambulance Unit at the outbreak of the First World War, and volunteered as a Red Cross orderly in France until 1915. He then served with the Royal Army Medical Corps until 1916, when he was discharged due to illness. Nevinson was then employed as a war artist by the Ministry of Information, and adopted a less futuristic approach to his painting. His paintings from this time were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in 1918, and published in the form of two books - 'British Artists at the Front' and 'The Great War: The Fourth Year'.
Nevinson also wrote for publications including the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the New Statesman and Harpers Bazaar. His autobiography, 'Paint and Prejudice', was published in 1937. |