World War 1 Painting
This conceptual art piece puts symbolism first. The meaning matters more than the final image. To grasp why I created it. Know the Great War’s horror. Violence and death hit hard. World War One saw over 37 million casualties. More than 16 million died. Twenty million got wounded. It ranks as one of history’s deadliest fights. British Empire losses spark debate. Records vary by definition and damage. Data here match most experts. British Empire: Total mobilized 8,904,467. Killed: 908,371. Wounded: 2,090,212. Missing: 191,652. Total casualties: 3,190,235. Viewers revisit the painting often. Each time brings fresh sights and personal views. It marks 100 years since WW1. The work honors bold acts, grim brutality, and war’s toll. It shaped our world. Young men chased honor, glory, and duty. They aimed to guard democracy. Lions at heart, they fought with pride. Both sides lost tens of thousands. Survivors reeled from the fight. Many struggled to fit back home. They shunned old values that drove them there. This split their generation from roots and heritage. Some call it the British Empire’s end. A risky new era began. The world changed forever.
This conceptual art piece puts symbolism first. The meaning matters more than the final image. To grasp why I created it. Know the Great War’s horror. Violence and death hit hard. World War One saw over 37 million casualties. More than 16 million died. Twenty million got wounded. It ranks as one of history’s deadliest fights. British Empire losses spark debate. Records vary by definition and damage. Data here match most experts. British Empire: Total mobilized 8,904,467. Killed: 908,371. Wounded: 2,090,212. Missing: 191,652. Total casualties: 3,190,235.
The art uses symbols. Good clashes with evil. God and Archangel Gabriel lead weeping angels. They gather dead from the field. Death watches close. Lucifer grins in joy at the pain. He craves control over human hearts. Mud and blood stain the ground. Trench life builds bonds. Kindness crosses enemy lines too. Bravery faces huge odds. The canvas lets us recall and grieve lost friends, dads, brothers. Pain echoes through time.
Zeppelins float in the sky. Raids hit coasts and London in 1915-1916. Quiet ships struck without warning. No shelters meant hiding in basements or under tables. Fifty-two raids killed over 500 Brits. A dogfight rages over no man’s land. That strip between trenches scared both sides from crossing. Images fill it: gas clouds, horses charging, medics saving lives despite sides. Tanks roll as steel beasts. Cavalry charges to bagpipes. Waves of men storm over the top. Casualties piled high.
I added shame of field executions. “Shot at dawn” took young minds broken by war. A Vickers gun sentry scans with his team. Gas alarm ready, masks on. One corner holds a Royal Navy seaman. Opposite stands a weary soldier. Between them, war’s child victims clutch dad’s last letter from his body.At the base lies my hell view. Lucifer eyes Michael with a challenge. He brags of the doom he sparked. Lost souls fall or get pulled by demons. In a German trench, young Adolf Hitler peers across no man’s land. Demons whisper dark ideas. They show the swastika. It would later burn the world in fresh hell. Carnage unseen before pushed nations to ruin again. Remember foes too. A wooden cross marks an unknown German soldier. Iron Cross shines amid wire and poppies. German losses hit 2,037,000 by 1934 counts. Battlefield fades down the canvas. I had to note their pain. 1914-1918 Roll of Honour for Those Sharing My Name ARCHIE JOSEPH BURY PALLISER 1915 SPTS/426 PRIVATE Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) Great Britain ARNOLD PALLISER 1916 15/696 PRIVATE Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) Great Britain HARRY PALLISER 1918 306869 PRIVATE Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) Great Britain JOHN ALFRED PALLISER 1918 60773 SERGT. Northumberland Fusiliers Great Britain JOHN CHRISTOPHER PALLISER 1916 3393 PRIVATE Durham Light Infantry Great Britain JOHN SYLVESTER PALLISER 1918 — MAJOR Alexandria Great Britain JOHN SYLVESTER PALLISER 1918 — MAJOR Machine Gun Corps Great Britain THOMAS PALLISER 1916 103404 SPR. Corps of Royal Engineers Great Britain WILLIAM PALLISER 1917 40747 PRIVATE South Wales Borderers Great Britain WILLIAM OWEN PALLISER 1918 30356 CPL. Alexandria Great BritainHow can you help? Share this page on social media. Show support for the project and those brave WW1 fighters. SPR Palliser John RE & CPL RMP 1976-1986
The art uses symbols. Good clashes with evil. God and Archangel Gabriel lead weeping angels. They gather dead from the field. Death watches close. Lucifer grins in joy at the pain. He craves control over human hearts. Mud and blood stain the ground. Trench life builds bonds. Kindness crosses enemy lines too. Bravery faces huge odds. The canvas lets us recall and grieve lost friends, dads, brothers. Pain echoes through time.
