WWII PAINTINGS OF STOIC BRITONS IN LONDON BLITZ OMIT GRUESOME REALITY
Suzanne Bardgett from the Imperial War Museum (IWM) has spearheaded a new study of artworks depicting the London Blitz. ese paintings – 5,570 works from over 400 British artists commissioned by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee during World War II – were designed to showcase stoic Britons, and so historically accurate frightened faces, blood and death had to be omitted from the paintings. e IWM has collated 82 of these artworks into a new book, Wartime London in Paintings.