Accession Number | ART91120 |
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Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Sheet: 137.6 x 68.2 cm |
Object type | |
Physical description | soft ground etching on paper |
Maker |
Arnold, Raymond Guerin, Luc |
Place made | France: Paris |
Date made | 1998 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
Blood and Bone/Haemorrhage Poem
Description
Soft ground etching, from a series of 10 etchings Arnold completed while completing an artist residency in Paris. The work was inspired by the artist's trip to the historic battlefields in Northern France in order to retrace the journey of his great grandfather who fought at the Western Front. The artist was walking near Le Hamel in France when he came across a ceremony to inaugurate a new memorial to Australian soldiers. This work relates to the many wreaths for the dead that were placed around the memorial that day and the connection that the artist feels to the spirits of the dead soldiers who died during the First World War.